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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In response to a question on the Punjab Congress candidates, Amarinder Singh said the next meeting was likely to be held in Delhi around the end of this week.
The 35-year-old Wing Commander was captured by Pakistan on Wednesday after his MiG fell in Pakistani territory during an aerial dogfight.
In a statement issued in Chandigarh, he urged the Centre to take up the issue with the neighbouring nation when the latter sends its draft agreement for regulating entry into its territory through the Kartarpur corridor.
Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Sunday alleged the BJP's "promotion" of the biopic 'The Accidental Prime Minister' is a mere political stunt by the party and a "desperate" effort to undermine the Congress ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.
His reaction comes in the background of a statue of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi being vandalised in Ludhiana by some persons on Tuesday.
SAD MLA Bikram Singh Majithia raised the issue in the state Assembly a day after his party colleague Manjinder Singh Sirsa alleged in Delhi that Nath had a hand in the anti-Sikh riots.
"The opening of the Kartarpur Corridor is clearly a game plan of the ISI," CM Amarinder Singh said, adding a bigger conspiracy seems to have been hatched by Pakistan Army against India.
Many Punjab ministers have demanded his resignation over his jibe at Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh and calling Rahul Gandhi as his 'captain'.
The Punjab chief minister, however, said that he acceded to Sidhu’s request for permission as he did not believe in stopping anyone from undertaking a “personal visit”.
The decision to build the corridor — from Dera Baba Nanak in Gurdaspur district to the international border — was taken by the Union Cabinet on November 22.
A peaceful religious congregation in Amritsar was attacked few days ago, which claimed lives of 3 and wounded 19, including women and children.
“I'm happy to announce that police nabbed one of the two persons involved. 26-year-old Bikramjit Singh has been arrested. The other man will also be arrested soon. His name is Avtar Singh,” he further informed.
A reward of Rs 50 lakh was announced by the chief minister for anyone providing information on those involved in the blast that left three persons dead, officials said.
Commenting on Amritsar blast, Singh on Sunday said that the possibility of involvement of ISI-based Khalistani/Kashmiri terror groups could not be ruled out.
He also announced Rs. 5 lakh compensation for the kin of the dead and free treatment for the injured.
Amarinder Singh, who enjoys Z-plus category security cover, will get 16 brand new bullet proof Toyota Land Cruiser luxury SUVs in his fleet. Each of these vehicles will cost over Rs 1.70 crore
The teachers were trying to find out which of the girls was wearing a sanitary napkin, after one was found in the school toilet, officials said.
The prime minister was sympathetic to the problem of farmers, said Singh, who is pressing for Rs 100 per quintal compensation to farmers to check stubble burning.
Reiterating that there was no question of going soft on the former Chief Minister, Amarinder Singh told the media here that "it was not possible that Badal was not aware of the police firing".
To hold Rahul Gandhi responsible for an act, of which he was not even aware when it happened, was completely ridiculous, said the chief minister.
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