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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New Delhi: Served with a notice by the Income Tax department, Punjab Congress Chief Amarinder Singh labelled it as an act of revenge by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, as even his son Raninder Singh has
Chandigarh: The United States-based Sikhs for Justice (SFJ) today claimed it had served notice of a "defamation lawsuit" against Punjab Congress president Amarinder Singh for allegedly linking it to Pakistan's ISI, which was, however, denied
Congress expelled senior leader Jagmeet Singh Brar, a known detractor of its Punjab unit chief Amarinder Singh, from the party in the wake of his consistent statements against the interests of the organisation.
Chandigarh: Amarinder Singh on Friday slammed Deputy Chief minister Sukhbir Singh Badal's claims that the state had only 16,620 drug addicts, saying that SAD-BJP government had admitted a much higher figure in the High Court,
New Delhi: A poster carrying pictures of slain militant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale along with Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and other Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leaders has sent flutters down the political circles in Punjab.The
New Delhi: Former chief minister Amarinder Singh has been appointed as the new Punjab Congress president, replacing Pratap Singh Bajwa, whose resignation was accepted by party president Sonia Gandhi yesterday.A release issued by AICC general
Patiala: Congress MP Amarinder Singh today said that his party was open to alliance with like-minded parties for the 2017 Assembly elections in Punjab.Talking to reporters after attending the National Press Day celebrations here, Amarinder
Tarn Taran: Senior Congress leader Amarinder Singh yesterday claimed that anger against the ruling Badal family of Punjab was gradually coming on the roads and soon they will find it difficult to face the people
New Delhi: The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) is probing former Union Minister Preneet Kaur and members of her family for the link between her HSBC Geneva account and trusts and companies.According to a
Sangrur: Slamming his predecessor Capt Amarinder Singh for allegedly issuing baseless statements on “sensitive issues” concerning the farmers of state, Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal today asked him to refrain from “politicizing” each and
Chandigarh: "Since the matter is pending before the Punjab and Haryana High Court, there was no point in setting up a parallel probe," Amarinder said in a statement issued here.The former Chief Minister said that
New Delhi: The Moga molestation case is set to rock Parliament today with Congress Deputy Leader in the Lok Sabha Amarinder Singh set to move an adjournment motion to discuss the law and order situation
Chandigarh: Congress leader Amarinder Singh on Sunday demanded that Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal should either resign from his post or shut down his family's transport and other businesses, including the controversial Orbit Aviation, as
NEW DELHI: Rahul Gandhi is visiting Khanna and Gobindgarh in Punjab today and will take stock of the situation in the state's grain markets where farmers are finding it difficult to sell their produce after
New Delhi: Rahul Gandhi is visiting Khanna and Gobindgarh in Punjab today and will take stock of the situation in the state's grain markets where farmers are finding it difficult to sell their produce after
Chandigarh: The war of words between Amarinder Singh and Partap Singh Bajwa further intensified with Congress's drubbing in the Dhuri bypoll today as the two leaders blamed each other for the party's defeat. In Dhuri
New Delhi: A day after Subramanian Swamy threatened to take legal recourse over the Rafale jet deal, Congress today spoke in different voices on the issue with Amarinder Singh strongly defending the purchase and asking
New Delhi: Congress deputy leader in Lok Sabha Amarinder Singh today asked Subramanian Swamy not to sabotage the Rafale deal for “settling scores”, a day after the BJP leader threatened to move court against it.“This
New Delhi: Sonia Gandhi should “retain” Congress Presidentship and a generation change cannot be done “with a knife”, senior party leader Amarinder Singh said today, amid conflicting voices in the Congress on the issue of
Dhuri (Punjab): Senior Congress leader Amarinder Singh today accused Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal of trading off state's interests by giving “extra water” to Haryana to “please his masters” in Delhi.He also charged Badal
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