President Murmu nominates Chandigarh University Chancellor Satnam Singh Sandhu to RS

30 Jan 2024 Evaluate

President Droupadi Murmu today nominated Chandigarh University founder-chancellor Satnam Singh Sandhu to the Rajya Sabha (RS). In a notification, the Home Ministry said President Droupadi Murmu nominated Sandhu to the upper house of Parliament. 

Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar and Prime Minister Narendra Modi have expressed happiness over Sandhu's nomination and congratulated him. PM Modi said ‘Satnam Ji has distinguished himself as a noted educationist and social worker, who has been serving people at the grassroots in different ways. He has always worked extensively to further national integration and has also worked with the Indian diaspora’. Dhankhar said ‘His rich work in community service and his passion towards education, innovation and learning will be big sources of strength for the Rajya Sabha. I wish him the very best for his tenure’.

Satnam Singh Sandhu, who is one of India's leading educationists in the present day. He had laid the foundation stone of Chandigarh Group of Colleges in Landran, Mohali in the year 2001. After this, Chandigarh University was established in 2012. He is actively involved in large-scale community efforts to improve health and wellness and also to advance communal harmony through his two NGOs -- the Indian Minorities Foundation and the New India Development Foundation.


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