Brahm Shankar Jimpa

Pandit Brahm Shankar Sharma Jimpa (or Bram Shanker Jimpa) is an Indian politician and the minister for Revenue and Water Resources in the Mann ministry, Punjab government.

He is the MLA representing the Hoshiarpur Assembly constituency in the Punjab Legislative Assembly. He is a member of the Aam Aadmi Party. He was elected as the MLA in the 2022 Punjab Legislative Assembly election.

Brahm Shankar Jimpa
Punjab Cabinet minister for
Revenue, Rehabilitation and Disaster Management
Assumed office
2022
CabinetMann ministry
Preceded byAruna Chaudhary
Punjab Cabinet minister for Water Resources
Assumed office
2022
Preceded bySukhbinder Singh Sarkaria
Punjab Cabinet minister for Water Supply & Sanitation
Assumed office
2022
Preceded byRazia Sultana
MLA Punjab Legislative Assembly
Assumed office
2022
Preceded bySunder Sham Arora (INC)
ConstituencyHoshiarpur
MajorityAam Aadmi Party
Personal details
Political partyAam Aadmi Party
ResidencePunjab

Career

He has been four time councilor from Hoshiarpur. On 24 June 2020, Jimpa was appointed by Chief Minister Amarinder Singh as the Vice Chairman of Punjab State Industrial Development Corporation (PSIDC). He is a member of the Aam Aadmi Party.

Member of Legislative Assembly

He was elected as the MLA in the 2022 Punjab Legislative Assembly election. He represented the Hoshiarpur Assembly constituency in the Punjab Legislative Assembly. Jimpa took oath as a cabinet minister along with nine other MLAs on 19 March at Guru Nanak Dev auditorium of Punjab Raj Bhavan in Chandigarh. Eight ministers including Jimpa who took oath were greenhorn (first term) MLAs. The Aam Aadmi Party gained a strong 79% majority in the sixteenth Punjab Legislative Assembly by winning 92 out of 117 seats in the 2022 Punjab Legislative Assembly election. MP Bhagwant Mann was sworn in as Chief Minister on 16 March 2022.

As a cabinet minister in the Mann ministry Jimpa was given the charge of three departments of the Punjab Government:

  1. Department of Revenue, Rehabilitation and Disaster Management
  2. Department of Water Resources
  3. Department of Water Supply & Sanitation

Revenue Minister

Jimpa took charge as the Revenue minister in the Punjab government in March 2022. He announced that his priority was to bring transparency in the department. He passed an order to live-stream the working of the officials in the revenue department. The order also made it mandatory to submit a daily report of working in the department with a follow-up check from the people inquiring if any bribe was taken. The revenue officers objected to the order and threatened protest after which the order was withdrawn.

On 5 December 2019, the Council of Ministers in the Amarinder Singh government took a decision to reduce the number of posts of patwari in the revenue department from 4,716 to 3,660. The decision was not publicly disclosed then. In August 2022, only 1,700 patwaris were working in Punjab and more than 3000 seats were vacant. After the new Mann government formation, Jimpa ordered the filling of vacancies of 3,660 authorized posts of patwaris.

Water Resources Minister

Jimpa took charge as the minister in the Water Resources Department of the Punjab government in March 2022. At the time of taking charge, he expressed concern at the fall in the watertable in the state. He expressed intentions of launching a 'jan andolan' (social movement) for water conservation in agriculture, domestic and commercial sectors. He also expressed intentions for promotion of rainwater harvesting.

Electoral performance

Punjab Assembly election, 2022: Hoshiarpur
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
AAP Pandit Brahm Shankar Jimpa 51,112 39.96
INC Sunder Sham Arora 37253 29.13
BJP Tikshan Sud 23973 18.74
BSP Virinder Singh Parhar 12087 9.45
Majority 13,859 10.83
Turnout 127907 66.19
Registered electors 192,794
AAP gain from INC

References

Political offices
Preceded by Punjab Cabinet minister for
Revenue, Rehabilitation and Disaster Management

2022–present
Incumbent
Preceded by Punjab Cabinet minister for Water Supply & Sanitation
2022–present
Incumbent
Preceded by Punjab Cabinet minister for Water Resources
Mar – July 2022
Succeeded by
State Legislative Assembly
Preceded by Member of the Punjab Legislative Assembly
from Hoshiarpur Assembly constituency

2022
Incumbent

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