Ahmad Bakhsh Sindhi (22 October 1917 – 28 April 2000) was an eminent leader of the Indian National Congress from the state of Rajasthan.
Sindhi was primarily raised and educated by his mother because his father died when he was 8 years old due to choking on a bone.
Sindhi’s first political achievement was being appointed to the position of Cabinet Minister for the independent state of Bikaner by its Maharaja, Sir Sadul Singh, in 1948.
Post independence, Sindhi contested in the first two Legislative Assembly elections from Bikaner seat under the banner of Indian National Congress.
It was in 1983 when he reached the pinnacle of his political career, when he became Law and Justice Minister in Shiv Charan Mathur’s ministry by Indira Gandhi.