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{{Short description|Indian politician}}
{{other_uses|Iqbal Singh (disambiguation){{!}}Iqbal Singh}}
{{Use Indian English|date=October 2024}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2024}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Iqbal Singh
| image =
| office = [[List of members of the 4th Lok Sabha|Members of the 4th Lok Sabha]]
| term_start = 1967
| term_end = 1970
| constituency = [[Fazilka (Lok Sabha constituency)|Fazilka]]<ref name="Parliament of India, Lok Sabha 2021 2">{{cite web | title=Members : Lok Sabha | website=Parliament of India, Lok Sabha | date=20 August 2021 | url=https://loksabha.nic.in/Members/statedetailar.aspx?state_name=Punjab&lsno=4 | access-date=20 August 2021}}</ref>
| office2 = Deputy [[Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas|Minister of Petroleum and Chemicals]]
| term_start2 = January 1966
| term_end2 = March 1967
| office3 = [[List of members of the 3rd Lok Sabha|Members of the 3rd Lok Sabha]]
| term_start3 = 1962
| term_end3 = 1967
| constituency3 = [[Firozpur (Lok Sabha constituency)|Firozpur]]<ref name="Parliament of India, Lok Sabha 2021 3">{{cite web | title=Members : Lok Sabha | website=Parliament of India, Lok Sabha | date=20 August 2021 | url=https://loksabha.nic.in/Members/statedetailar.aspx?state_name=Punjab&lsno=3 | access-date=20 August 2021}}</ref>
| office4 = [[List of members of the 2nd Lok Sabha|Members of the 2nd Lok Sabha]]
| term_start4 = 1957
| term_end4 = 1962
| constituency4 = Firozpur<ref name="Parliament of India, Lok Sabha 2021 4">{{cite web | title=Members : Lok Sabha | website=Parliament of India, Lok Sabha | date=20 August 2021 | url=https://loksabha.nic.in/Members/statedetailar.aspx?state_name=Punjab&lsno=2 | access-date=20 August 2021}}</ref>
| office5 = [[List of members of the 1st Lok Sabha|Members of the 1st Lok Sabha]]
| term_start5 = 1954
| term_end5 = 1957
| constituency5 = Fazilka-Sirsa<ref name="Parliament of India, Lok Sabha 2021 5">{{cite web | title=Members : Lok Sabha | website=Parliament of India, Lok Sabha | date=20 August 2021 | url=https://loksabha.nic.in/Members/statedetailar.aspx?state_name=Punjab&lsno=1 | access-date=20 August 2021}}</ref>
| party = [[Indian National Congress]]
| birth_date = {{birth date|1923|10|27|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Punjab]], India
| death_date = 1988 (aged 64)
| death_place = [[Ludhiana]], Punjab, India
| spouse = Rajeshwar Kaur
| children = 3
| education =
| alma_mater = [[Sikh National College, Lahore]]
}}

'''Sardar Iqbal Singh''' (27 October 1923 – 1988) was an Indian politician and [[Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha|member of parliament]] who represented Fazilka-Sirsa parliamentary constituency in [[1st Lok Sabha]] (1954—57), [[Firozpur (Lok Sabha constituency)|Firozpur constituency]] in [[2nd Lok Sabha]] (1957—62), and was re-elected from the same constituency in [[3rd Lok Sabha]] (1962—67). He was last elected from [[Fazilka (Lok Sabha constituency)|Fazilka parliamentary constituency]] in [[4th Lok Sabha]] (1967–70). A member of the [[Indian National Congress]], he also served as a deputy-[[Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas|minister of Petroleum and Chemicals]] from January 1966 to March 1967 and deputy-[[Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs|minister for Works, Housing and Supply]] in 1967.

== Life and career ==
Singh was born in [[Firozpur]], [[Punjab, India]] on 27 October 1923 to Sardar Rattan Singh. He received his at M.B. High School, [[Abohar]] and Sikh National College, [[Lahore]]. He was the first to be appointed as a president of the Punjab Students' Congress from 1944 to 46, and later he organised [[Student activism|students' movement]] in Lahore, in addition to participating in the [[Quit India Movement]].<ref name="Parliament of India, Lok Sabha 1923">{{cite web | title=Members Bioprofile | website=Parliament of India, Lok Sabha | date=27 October 1923 | url=http://loksabhaph.nic.in/writereaddata/biodata_1_12/748.htm | access-date=20 August 2021}}</ref> He was later jailed for taking part in the Quit India Movement.

Singh was also appointed as a member of [[Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee]] (1946—55), member of [[All India Congress Committee]] (AICC) in 1955, member of [[Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee]] (PCC) (1948—52) and was re-elected as PCC member in 1955, and later general secretary of All India Khalsa Dal.<ref name="Parliament of India, Lok Sabha 1923"/>

Singh was married to Rajeshwar Kaur, with whom he had three children, including one daughter and two sons.<ref name="ENTRANCEINDIA">{{cite web | title=Sardar Iqbal Singh MP biodata Fazilka | website=ENTRANCEINDIA {{pipe}} Election Directory | date=24 December 2018 | url=https://entranceindia.com/election-and-politics/sardar-iqbal-singh-member-of-parliament-mp-from-fazilka-punjab-biodata/ | access-date=20 August 2021 | archive-date=20 August 2021 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210820072834/https://entranceindia.com/election-and-politics/sardar-iqbal-singh-member-of-parliament-mp-from-fazilka-punjab-biodata/ | url-status=dead }}</ref> He died in 1988, at the age of 64.<ref name="Sabha">{{cite book |title=Lok Sabha Debates |date=1988 |pages=1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c25PAQAAMAAJ&q=%22Sardar+Iqbal+Singh+passed%22 |access-date=24 July 2022 |last1=Lok Sabha |first1=India. Parliament }}</ref>

== References ==
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[[Category:1923 births]]
[[Category:1988 deaths]]
[[Category:India MPs 1952–1957]]
[[Category:India MPs 1957–1962]]
[[Category:India MPs 1962–1967]]
[[Category:India MPs 1967–1970]]
[[Category:Indian National Congress politicians from Punjab, India]]
[[Category:People from Firozpur district]]
[[Category:Union deputy ministers of India]]

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