Som Parkash

Som Parkash
Union Minister of State, Commerce and Industry, Government of India
In office 30 May 2019 – 4 June 2024
Prime Minister	Narendra Modi
Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
In office 23 May 2019 – 4 June 2024
Preceded by	Vijay Sampla
Succeeded by	Raj Kumar Chabbewal
Constituency	Hoshiarpur, Punjab
MLA, Punjab
In office 2012-2019
Preceded by	Swarna Ram
Succeeded by	Balwinder Singh Dhaliwal
Constituency	Phagwara
Personal details
Born	(1949-04-03) 3 April 1949 (age 75) Daulatpur, East Punjab, India
Political party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Spouse	Anita Som Parkash
Children	2
Parents	Hazara Ram (father) Mahon Devi (mother)
Residence(s)	Phagwara, Kapurthala

Som Parkash is a politician belonging to the Bharatiya Janata Party. He was the Union Minister of State for Commerce and Industry, Government of India. He was a Member of Parliament from Hoshiarpur Lok Sabha Constituency and an Ex-MLA from Phagwara.^[1] He is also a former Deputy Commissioner of Jalandhar and former IAS officer of 1988 batch in Punjab cadre.^[2] Som Parkash, who was born on 3 April 1949,^[3] is an MA (Economics) from the Punjab University, Chandigarh. He had started his career as a research officer in the Punjab State Planning Board in 1972. Thereafter, he became an excise and taxation officer in the Punjab Excise Department. Som Parkash has served as the deputy commissioner of Faridkot, Hoshiarpur and Jalandhar and has also held posts like the Labour Commissioner, Punjab Urban Planning and Development Authority (PUDA) chief administrator, managing director of the Punjab Financial Corporation and director of the Social Security Department.