Randeep was born as the youngest and fourth child of Ch. Shamsher Singh
Surjewala and Smt. Vidya Surjewala on 3rd June, 1967 at PGIMS,
Chandigarh. His father was then Minister for Agriculture &
Co-operatives in the First Ministry of State of Haryana. He has three
elder sisters – Mrs. Madhu Dalal, Mrs. Poonam Chaudhary and Ms. Neeru
(now deceased).Randeep’s mother, Smt. Vidya Kulharia was born in the year 1937 in Chak No. 149, Near Arafwala Mandi, Tehsil Baghpattan, District Mintg umri (now in Pakistan). During the Partition of India in 1947, she along with her family and millions of others, migrated to the present day India and settled in Hisar in Haryana.
Randeep got his moorings in grassroots in course of his primary education in Adarsh Bal Mandir, Narwana and then in Arya Higher Secondary School, Narwana, District Jind, Haryana upto Matriculation.
His father’s brush with India’s Freedom struggle started in 1940’s as President of Student Congress in District Sangrur (erstwhile Punjab). His father was expelled from Yadvindra State High School by the ruler of Sangrur for espousing the agenda of Indian National Congress. In September, 1957; his father started his law practice as an ace lawyer specializing in criminal law and jurisprudence but amiably graduated to grassroots politics getting elected first as Managing Director of Central Co-operative Bank, Sangur in 1959-60 and then as Chairman of Panchayat Samiti, Kalayat (now in District Kaithal) in the year 1961 and again in 1964. Randeep’s father is also a veteran Parliamentarian having been elected to Haryana Legislative Assembly in 1967, 1977, 1982, 1991 and 2005 and to Indian Parliament in the year 1993.
Formative schooling years in his small home town of Narwana have left an indelible impact on his upbringing, humility, sense of purpose and a keen desire for impacting change. His mother’s unflinching religious belief and compassion are largely reflected in Randeep’s way of life.
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