New Delhi, July 24: BJP leader Ravneet Singh Bittu has resigned from the Union Council of Ministers after his Rajya Sabha tenure ended on June 21.

He was Minister of State for Railways and Food Processing Industries. President of India has accepted his resignation with immediate effect.

According to a notification from Rashtrapati Bhavan, the President has accepted his resignation from the Council of Ministers.

He was a member of the Rajya Sabha from August 2024 to June 2026 from Rajasthan.

The resignation comes as the BJP gears up for the Punjab Legislative Assembly 2027. Ravneet Bittu is the grandson of former Punjab Chief Minister and Congress leader Beant Singh.

Ravneet Bittu was a three-time Lok Sabha MP from Congress, before switching to the BJP in 2024, ahead of the General Election.

In the 2017 Assembly elections, Bittu contested the polls on a Congress ticket and was up against the heavyweights Shiromani Akali Dal chief Sukhbir Singh Badal and AAP leader Bhagwant Mann. He lost the polls to Badal and finished third behind Mann.

In 2024, contesting his first polls on the BJP ticket, he lost the General Elections to Congress state president Amrinder Singh Raja Warring with a margin of 20,942 votes.