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Raninder Singh
Raninder Singh
President of the National Rifle Association of India
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; December 2009
Vice President of the International Shooting Sport Federation
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; November 2018
Personal details
Born	2 August 1967 (age 57); Patiala, Punjab, India
Political party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Other political; affiliations	Punjab Lok Congress; Indian National Congress
Spouse	Rishma Kaur (m. 1995)
Children	3
Parents	Captain Amarinder Singh (father); Preneet Kaur (mother);
Residence	Patiala
Pretender information
Title(s)	Yuvraj of Patiala
Pretend from	17 June 1974–present
Monarchy abolished	Sovereign monarchy; 1947 (Instrument of Accession); Titular monarchy; 1971 (26th Amendment of the Indian Constitution)
Predecessor	Amarinder Singh
Successor	Yadauindra Singh II

Raninder Singh (born 2 August 1967) is an Indian politician from Punjab, India, and son of the former Chief Minister of Punjab Amarinder Singh.^[1] He is the titular heir to the historical royal Phulkian dynasty of Patiala.

Early life and education

Belonging to royal house of Patiala, Singh is son of Amarinder Singh and Preneet Kaur. He has a sister Jai Inder Kaur. He attended Yadavindra Public School, Patiala and subsequently studied at The Doon School, Dehradun. He graduated from St. Stephen's College, Delhi and completed a master of business administration degree from Buckingham University, UK in 1990.^[2]

Career

He started his political career in late 1990s, by assisting with the election campaigns of his father and mother Preneet Kaur, an Indian National Congress MP from the Patiala Lok Sabha constituency, four times, 1999, 2004, 2009 and 2019.^[3]

Subsequently he joined the Youth Congress division of the party himself. In 2005, he was appointed General Secretary of the Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) in 2005 and made in-charge of the Bathinda district. In the coming years, he worked in the region, and as a result he was credited for Congress winning the maximum seats in the Malwa region, in the State Assembly elections in India, 2007, while the party faced a rout in Majha and Doaba regions of Punjab.^[2]^[4]

He unsuccessfully contested Lok Sabha elections against Harsimrat Kaur Badal, the wife of Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal in 2009 general elections, from Bathinda, in a high-profile run up to the elections.^[4]^[5]

He lost 2012 Punjab Assembly elections in 2012 from Samana constituency.^[6]

President of National Rifle Association of India

He was appointed as the President of the National Rifle Association of India (NRAI) in December 2009. He won from his nearest rival Shyam Singh Yadav by a landslide majority. He has been an accomplished international level trap shooter himself.^[7]^[8]

He was elected as Vice President of International Shooting Sports Federation in November 2018.

Personal life

He married Rishma Kaur (née Dhingra), daughter of Kuldip Singh Dhingra and Meeta Dhingra of Berger Paints India Limited in 1995, and the couple have one son, Yadauinder Singh (b. 2003), and two daughters namely Seherinder Kaur (b.1996) and Inayatinder Kaur (b.1999).^[9]