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 Captain Amarinder Singh on Wednesday said that he will not meet the Canadian Defence Minister Harjit Singh Sajjan during his India visit later this month because he is a “Khalistani sympathiser”.
Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh said on Wednesday that if the electronic voting machines were tampered with he would not have been in power.
Singh claimed that the previous SAD-BJP government ‘harassed’ small users and children ‘in the garb of crackdown on drugs’.
The notification was, however, later withdrawn with CM Captain Amarinder Singh asking the Chief Secretary to have the correct notification sent to him for approval.
Minister Navjot Singh Sidhu can continue as a celebrity-judge on a popular TV comedy show and there is no conflict of interest in it, Punjab's Advocate General Atul Nanda said today.
Newly elected Punjab Cabinet minister Navjot Singh Sidhu has refused to cede ground on his TV stint saying that it was not an office of profit and he does not have any other source of
Beacons will be only allowed on vehicles engaged in emergency services like ambulances and fire brigades, and on cars of the Chief Justice and judges of the Punjab and Haryana High Court.
The newly appointed Punjab minister Navjot Singh Sidhu on Friday said that Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh was like his father and that he would have served as an MLA if the Captain had asked him for the same.
Miffed over not being allowed to lead the Punjab unit of Congress, Captain Amarinder Singh in 2015 had told Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi that he was ready to quit and float his own outfit, if he was not appointed state party chief.
Punjab CM Capt Amarinder Singh on Thursday allotted portfolios to his nine ministers and has kept the crucial Home Ministry for himself.
Punjab Congress chief today won from his traditional assembly constituency of Patiala-Urban. He won here by 52,407 votes, defeating his Aam Aadmi Party rival, Balbir Singh.
With the Congress set to form government in Punjab, state party chief Amarinder Singh today said tackling drug menace would be a priority even as he attacked SAD for having brought the state "down to its knees".
Proving exit polls which projected a close fight between the Congress and debutant Aam Aadmi Party wrong, the grand-old-party today forged ahead in 76 of the 117 seats in the state Assembly.
Amarinder Singh has sought the deployment of armed forces to prevent any untoward incident on Thursday when INLD has threatened to force its way into Punjab to dig the SYL canal.
A day ahead of state Assembly polls, Punjab Congress President Amarinder Singh accused Akal Dal leaders of luring voters with money.
Congress will be routed even if it makes Amarinder Singh PM face, says Arvind Kejriwal
The poll day in the state of Punjab is less than a week away and Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi have gone all out convince the common man. Modi led the
In a stern warning to rebel party candidates who failed to withdraw their nominations in time, Punjab Congress president Amarinder Singh has asked them to retire from the race by Tuesday evening or face permanent expulsion from the party.
Punjab Congress chief Amarinder Singh today made it clear that the leaders refusing to toe the party line would be expelled.
Navjot Singh Sidhu and Punjab Congress President Amarinder Singh on Thursday came together in a show of unity before the Punjab polls.
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