Brijendra Singh appointed vice-chairman of Congress Foreign Affairs department
A 1998-batch IAS officer, Brijendra Singh took voluntary retirement to enter politics and was elected as MP from Hisar (Haryana) on the BJP ticket in 2019.
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Former Lok Sabha MP Brijendra SinghFormer Lok Sabha MP Brijendra Singh, who previously served as Deputy Commissioner of Chandigarh during his civil services tenure, was Wednesday appointed vice-chairman of the All India Congress Committee’s Foreign Affairs Department. The department will be chaired by former external affairs minister Salman Khurshid.
A 1998-batch IAS officer, Brijendra Singh took voluntary retirement to enter politics and was elected as MP from Hisar (Haryana) on the BJP ticket in 2019.
In that election, he defeated Dushyant Chautala of the Jannayak Janta Party by a margin of over two lakh votes, as the BJP swept all 10 Lok Sabha seats in Haryana.
However, ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, Singh left the BJP and joined the Congress. He later contested the October 2024 Assembly elections from Haryana’s Uchana Kalan constituency but narrowly lost to BJP’s Devender Chatar Bhuj Attri by just 32 votes. He is the son of senior Congress leader and former Union minister Chaudhary Birender Singh.
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