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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The Chief Minister has directed the Chief Secretary to work out the modalities and have the necessary notification issued in this regard, an official spokesperson said.
The CM said that the decision to realign the state board syllabus with the NCERT was taken by the SAD-BJP government in 2014.
The Chief Minister, who wrote to Sushma Swaraj on the issue, also called her to speak to her personally to ensure that the central government makes all efforts to bring the mortal remains of the deceased to India for the last rites.
The move is aimed at checking the trend of hookah, hookah bars, and the use of tobacco in various forms among youngsters, an official said.
Dismissing the remark as 'frivolous and unsubstantiated', Singh said the prime minister's comment was part of the BJP's "futile" attempt to create a wedge between him and the Congress high command ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.
The CBI today questioned Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh's son-in-law Gurpal Singh in connection with the alleged bank fraud case of Rs 97.85 crore by Simbhaoli Sugars Limited, officials said.
Punjab chief minister had offered the post of a deputy superintendent of police (DSP) to Harmanpreet Kaur, who hails from Moga district of Punjab.
Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh today flayed "attempts to politicise" the Oriental Bank of Commerce (OBC) case with "unsubstantiated" charges against his son-in-law.
Simbhaoli Sugars Limited is one of the largest sugar mills in the country. Gurpal Singh is the son-in-law of the Punjab chief minister.
Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Wednesday said that he raised the militancy issue related to the separatist movement of Khalistan with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
Punjab CM Amarinder Singh said he would be happy to welcome Canada PM Justin Trudeau during his visit to India later this month and hold talks to strengthen ties between Punjab and Canada.
Amarinder Singh said he would be happy to welcome Trudeau during his visit to India later this month and hold talks to strengthen ties between Punjab and Canada.
The Chief Minister warned that no political interference would be tolerated in the matter and instructed officials to initiate the crackdown without delay.
AAP legislator and Leader of Opposition in Punjab Assembly Sukhpal Singh Khaira has accused the chief minister of breach of oath of office and secrecy in purchasing the plot.
Besides the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the leaders also discussed the organisational structure of the party in Punjab.
Justice Rajan Gupta ruled that Kumar, a retired Indian Administrative Service officer, was holding the post "in violation of Article 166 (3) of the Constitution" and thus the appointment was "null and void".
Ruling Congress today swept the three municipal corporations of Amritsar, Jalandhar and Patiala while the opposition SAD-BJP alleged misuse of official machinery.
The Delhi Chief Minister is scheduled to arrive in Chandigarh on Wednesday to meet his Haryana counterpart Manohar Lal Khattar.
The government in Pakistan's Punjab province tweeted that it had imposed a ban on stubble burning and hoped Amarinder Singh takes similar measures.
Amarinder Singh said that he has also written a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking compensation for farmers for crop residue management to check the dangerous trend of stubble burning.
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