MLA Profile:
Shiv Ram Kaler is the MLA from Jagraon. He is associated with Shiromani Akali Dal. He was born on 12-03-1951 at Jalandhar, district Jalandhar. Name of his father is Ujagar Ram. He graduated from Panjab University, Chandigarh, in the year 1974.
Jagraon is a city, a municipal council, a rural police district and a sub-division of the Ludhiana district. Jagraon is more than three centuries old. It has been thought by some that the city’s original name was Jagar aon, meaning A place of great flooding, although this flooding has since ceased. It could also be argued that Jagraon actually derives from a source with a suffix –graon being a development of the Sanskrit Grama, meaning Villageas found in the Hindi word Gaon. The city is located at almost the geographical center of Punjab state, only 16 kilometres from the River Satluj. It is situated at a distance of 37 km from its district headquarters Ludhiana, 29 km from Moga, 31 km from Nakodar, 55 km from Barnala.
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Shri Shiv Ram Kaler is the MLA from Jagraon. He is associated with Akali Dal. He was elected as MLA from this Vidhan Sabha seat in the elections held in 2012. He won by a thin margin of 204 votes. Isher Singh Meharban of Congress was the trailing candidate.
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