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 Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Wednesday accused the SAD of “shedding crocodile tears” over the state-wide desecration of religious texts in 2015, asserting that his government would take the matter to its logical end.
Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Wednesday said his government would take to its logical conclusion the CBI's failure to further investigate the Bargari sacrilege cases against three followers of the Dera Sacha Sauda.
Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh announced a pilot project, which aimed at providing compulsory NCC training to all students of Class IX and XI at government schools and first and second-year students at all colleges in the border districts of Gurdaspur, Tarn Taran and Amritsar. Gradually, NCC training would be made compulsory at all the schools in the state.
Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh said that a young leader with a forward looking approach would "galvanise" rank-and-file of the Congress after its defeat in Lok Sabha election 2019. He added that Rahul Gandhi's decision to resign from the post of Congress president was "unfortunate"
Expressing disappointment over Rahul Gandhi's resignation as the Congress President, Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder on Wednesday said Rahul should have continued to lead the party with the same dynamism and fighting spirit with which he had steered the election campaign.
Clashes broke out in Ludhiana Central Jail after prisoners attacked police officials on Thursday, reported ANI. Several police officials were injured in the incident.
Bargari sacrilege case prime accused was reportedly killed in Patiala's Nabha jail on Saturday.
To prepare a comprehensive master plan for the conservation and management of water resources to tackle declining ground water in Punjab, Water Resources Minister Sukhbinder Singh Sarkaria on Saturday met a three-member team of experts from Israel in Amritsar.
Three chief ministers, including Mamata Banerjee and K Chandrashekhar Rao, gave it a miss to the fifth meeting of the Governing Council of Niti Aayog chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi here on Saturday.
The cricketer-turned-politician also posted a picture in which he has seen along with Rahul Gandhi, Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and senior leader Ahmed Patel.
The state government had already made available 14.01 acres of land belonging to the District Hospital, Punjab Health Systems Corporation and State Health Training Institute besides additional land of 9.2 acres of gram panchayat of Jhujhar Nagar.
Chief Minister Amarinder Singh said saving the environment was the responsibility of each one. He also underlined the responsibility of the citizens in conservation of ground water, which was depleting fast in Punjab.
In a message to mark the International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression, he tweeted: "My heart goes out to all children who have been victims of violence."
Since the teachings of the first Sikh guru are as relevant today as they were in his times, the 550th Parkash Utsav of Sri Guru Nanak Dev, to be observed on November 12, should be declared as National Tolerance Day as a befitting tribute to the great Master, said the Chief Minister Amarinder Singh.
Punjab chief minister Amarinder Singh Friday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, giving 101 suggestions on GST simplifications to alleviate the problems currently faced by businesses.
Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh has sought Prime Minister Narendra Modi's intervention to bring more rural poor into the ambit of the Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana-Gramin (PMAY-G) by relaxing norms of the scheme.
"There are same eight or nine people who in the past also wanted me to be thrown out of the party, but I have never spoken a word against them," Sidhu said.
BJP chief Amit Shah on Thursday reached the official residence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi hours ahead of the formation of the new government and swearing-in ceremony. This is the third round of meeting between the top two leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the last three days.
Shiromani Akali Dal president Sukhbir Singh Badal Wednesday accused Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh of "reneging" on poll promises and claimed the Congress leader's career will end after his party loses the Lok Sabha elections.
Hours after his wife claimed that he won't campaign for the Congress in Punjab, Cabinet Minister Navjot Singh Sidhu shared the stage with Chief Minister Amarinder Singh and Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi on Tuesday threatening a "knockout punch" to the Badals.
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