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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Amritsar: Taking a swipe at Amarinder Singh's royal background, BJP leader Arun Jaitley today said the politics of the Congress leader reflects his “feudal mindset” as he has been caught “lying with a straight face”
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Amritsar: Facing criticism from the ruling Akali Dal and other Sikh groups for defending Jagdish Tytler for his alleged role in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, former Punjab chief minister Amarinder Singh Monday said he had
New Delhi: A large number of Sikhs protested outside the Congress office here Monday over former Punjab chief minister Amarinder Singh giving a clean chit to Congress leader Jagdish Tytler in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.Amarinder
Amritsar: Raking up the issue of 1984 riots, BJP leader Arun Jaitley today alleged that those guilty for the “state sponsored” violence still remain unpunished. Describing the “massacre” of innocent Sikhs after the assassination of
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New Delhi: Hitting back at Amarinder Singh, BJP leader Arun Jaitley today used the Improvement Trust scam charge sheet against him and said rulers and ‘Maharajas' should display greater probity and transparency in public life.“Everyone
Chandigarh: Amarinder Singh has set the political temperature soaring after the Congress announced he would take on BJP heavyweight Arun Jaitley in Amritsar and the confident former Punjab chief minister who belongs to an erstwhile
Amritsar: Senior leader and BJP candidate from Amritsar Arun Jaitley landed in embarrassing situation today when he went to the district court to canvass for votes.As Jaitley was campaigning at the court, a group of
Chandigarh: Congress leader Amarinder Singh today lashed out at BJP leader Arun Jaitley for raking up the issue of Sonia Gandhi's origin and reminded him of Indian tradition where daughter-in-law is the "real inheritor" of
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New Delhi/Chandigarh, March 6: The Congress Tuesday appointed Pratap Singh Bajwa as the new chief of its Punjab unit, replacing Amarinder Singh.Bajwa, Congress MP from Gurdaspur, has replaced Amarinder Singh, Congress general secretary Janardhan Dwivedi
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