Himmat Singh Shergill


Himmat Singh Shergill is an Indian politician and U.K. educated lawyer based in Chandigarh, India. He was Head of Legal Cell of Aam Aadmi Party from 2014 to 2017. He unsuccessfully contested the Lok Sabha election 2014 from Anandpur Sahib as an Aam Aadmi Party candidate. He also unsuccessfully contested Punjab assembly election 2017 from Majitha constituency. He has been inactive in Politics since 2017 and is practising Law ever since. as an Aam Aadmi Party candidate. He also contested Punjab assembly election 2017 from Majitha constituency.

Early life

His late father Shamsher Singh Shergill was a leading Advocate at Punjab and Haryana High Court. After doing his schooling at Lawrence School Sanawar, he did his BA in Political Science and then moved to UK for further studies in Law where he did his LLB, P.G.D. in Professional and Legal Skills and Bar-at-Law.

Political career

Himmat Singh Shergill unsuccessfully contested his first election from Shri Anandpur Sahib Lok Sabha constituency in 2014. He secured 28.15%votes. He also unsuccessfully contested 2017 vidhan sabha elections from Majitha. He was Head of Legal Cell of Aam Aadmi Party from 2014 to 2017. He has been inactive in Politics since 2017 and is practising Law ever since.

Personal life

Shergill is very daring person. Despite getting maximum votes in Sahibzada Ajit Singh Nagar Assembly Constituency in 2014 parliamentary elections, he shifted to Majitha Assembly Constituency as all others had refused to contest against Bikram Singh Majithia. He had got ticket from Sahibzada Ajit Singh Nagar Assembly Constituency and after campaigning for 4 months in Sahibzada Ajit Singh Nagar Assembly Constituency for 2017 Assembly elections he was shifted to Majitha Assembly Constituency on asking of Arvind Kejriwal. During a rally in Majitha while declaring his candidature from Majitha after shifting him from SAS Nagar Arvind Kejriwal had called him "Mera Chhotta Bhai" and said that when Himmat Singh Shergill had agreed to leave his home constituency where he had secured maximum votes during Lok Sabha election and fight against Bikram Majithia he got tears in his eyes.
He is an Advocate by profession. He is known for fighting court cases of thousands of Punjabi farmers in Gujrat's Kutch region who were being ousted from Gujarat by Narendra Modi when he was Chief Minister of Gujarat. All these cases were conducted by him without charging any fee.
He undertook his Bar-at-Law from Inner Temple, London, which is the same institution from where Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru also studied.