Captain Amarinder Singh is an politician who served as the Chief Minister of Punjab as a leader of the Congress party for two separate terms, once from 2002 to 2007, and again from 2017 to 2021. Born on March 11, 1972, Amarinder Singh also served as the President of the Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee thrice. His father was the last Maharaja of the princely state of Patiala. He has also served in the Indian Army from 1963 to 1966. He was inducted into the Indian National Congress by Rajiv Gandhi, who was his friend from school. Singh was first elected to the Lok Sabha in 1980. Amarinder joined the Shiromani Akali Dal after he resigned from Congress as a protest to Operation Blue Star in the year 1984. He rejoined the Congress in 1998. Amarinder Singh was sworn in as the 26th Chief Minister of Punjab on 16 March 2017. But recently, he broke away from the Congress again after long infighting within the Punjab Congress. PPCC President Navjot Singh Sidhu is a big reason why Amarinder broke away from the party and resigned as the CM of Punjab. For the upcoming Punjab assembly elections in 2022, Amarinder Singh floated a new party Punjab Lok Congress, for which he is eyeing 24 MLAs from the ruling Congress party who are likely to be denied party nomination in the upcoming polls. However, he lost elections to AAP candidate.
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Punjab Finance Minister Manpreet Singh Badal presented state govt Budget 2020 of Rs 1.54 lakh crore on Friday. One of the key announcement made by the Punjab Finance Minister is reducing the retirement age of government employees to 58 and releasing 6% pending DA arrears in a week's time.
The Punjab government here on Monday claimed to have wiped out locust from two villages in the Fazilka district along the Indo-Pak border
The ruling Congress in Punjab has moved a resolution in the state assembly on Friday demanding scrapping of the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act. Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh had on Thursday had hinted of bringing a resolution against the amended citizenship law.
A Sikh youth identified as Ravinder Singh was killed on Sunday by an unidentified person in Peshawar. Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh expressed grief over the killing.
Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Friday came out in support of the Kerala Assembly resolution demanding to scrap the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, saying it was the voice of the people and the Centre should also pay heed to it.
The chief minister has directed state police chief Dinkar Gupta to inquire into the “allegations as made out from the documents/photos” that have been submitted to him and which “prove to the contrary” of the allegations made by opposition parties.
Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Friday announced to have a dedicated MSME marketing cell and the establishment of a Rs 100 crore startup fund.
Amarinder said he believed Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan wanted peace but the Pakistan Army, in its desperation to remain relevant, calls the shots and obstructs efforts for peace.
Singh expressed serious concern over this admission by Pakistan's Railway Minister Sheikh Rashid and said in validating his stand on the issue, Rashid had completely bared the wicked design of Pakistan behind the Corridor, which India had hoped would emerge as a bridge of peace between the countries.
The opening of Gurdwara Kartarpur Sahib on Guru Nanak Dev's birth anniversary celebrations has given hope of access for Nankana Sahib Gurdwara in Pakistan. Punjab CM Amarinder Singh and UP CM Yogi Adityanath have joined the chorus of opening up of Nankana Sahib for pilgrims.
Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Thursday ruled out a visit to Pakistan for the Kartarpur corridor opening, making it clear that he would be only leading the first all-party 'jatha' (religious group) to the Kartarpur Sahib Gurdwara to pay obeisance.
Even as he asserted that the state government was fully prepared to counter the resurgence of the terror threat from Pakistan, Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Thursday advised against linking this issue with the religious occasion of the 550th birth anniversary celebrations of Guru Nanak Dev.
A sum of Rs 100 per quintal of paddy should be given to farmers so that they can arrange to manage the stubble without resorting to its open burning by using the compensation money to meet the paddy straw management cost, the Chief Minister said in his letter to the Prime Minister.
Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Sunday urged the Centre to alert the Air Force and the Border Security Force about the possibility of drones being used to supply weapons from across the border.
Talking informally with mediapersons after inaugurating a two-day Pashupaalan Mela here, Amarinder Singh said the party was fully geared to contest the upcoming by-elections on the back of the government's progressive and welfare programmes and schemes.
The jobs fair would be held in every district between September 9 and September 30 at 82 venues, said Technical Education and Employment Generation Minister Charanjit Singh Channi, here on Monday.
The 59-year-old breathed his last at around 3 am at the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) here, official sources said. He is survived by wife, two sons and a daughter.
With rains again lashing parts of flood-ravaged Punjab, Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Sunday directed all ministers overseeing relief operations and the deputy commissioners to step up vigil.
Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh's wife and Patiala MP Preneet Kaur fell prey to online fraud was duped of Rs 23 lakh to a scamster who called her posing as a bank manager. According to PTI report, Kaur received a call a few days back when she was in Delhi to attend the Parliament session.
Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh is yet to take a call on Navjot Singh Sidhu's resignation from the state Cabinet, official sources said on Thursday.
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