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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Chandigarh, Oct 10: At a time when Punjab is at the political crossroads over the issue of allowing international supermarket chains in multi-brand retail, Congress leader Amarinder Singh has accused Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal
Dasuya, Jul 8: Describing Amarinder Singh as a “famous absentee”, Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal today said the Congress leader had rarely attended assembly sessions and was over-excited at his one-day attendance during the
New Delhi, May 9 : Following is the timeline of major air crashes involving chief ministers and other VVIPs in India during the past several years: · April 30, 2011, Arunachal Pradesh CM Dorji Khandu,
Patti (Punjab), Apr 18: Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee President Amarinder Singh today served a two-week ultimatum to Akali-BJP government in the state for withdrawing all “false” cases registered against Congress workers and said otherwise party
Ludhiana, Apr 7: Raninder Singh, who had unsuccessfully contested the recent Punjab assembly polls, today came in strong defence of his father and PCC chief Amarinder Singh, saying it was not fair to put blame
Chandigarh, March 6: Punjab Congress leader Captain Amarinder Singh today offered to step down taking responsibility for the party's defeat in the state assembly elections. Singh said, if the Congress president wants, I will certainly
Chandigarh, Jan 27: Punjab Congress president Amarinder Singh today visited Dera Sacha Sauda at Sirsa in Haryana and sought support for the party from its head Gurmit Ram Rahim Singh.According to Congress sources, Amarinder was
New Delhi, Jan 6: Congress today announced the names of 114 candidates for the forthcoming Punjab Assembly polls. Former chief minister Amarinder Singh and his son Raninder Singh are among the 114 Congress candidates whose names
New Delhi, Jan 3: Punjab Congress president Amarinder Singh today clarified that the letter he had written to Defence Minister A K Antony on the date of birth issue of Army Chief Gen. V K
Chandigarh, Dec 20: Punjab Congress today welcomed the High Court order giving voting rights to Sehajdhari Sikhs in SGPC elections maintaining that the community very much belonged to the Sikh religion.PCC President Amarinder Singh said
Chandigarh, Oct 23: Congress will contest the assembly elections in Punjab on its own, former chief minister and state party president Amarinder Singh said here on Sunday.'The elections in Punjab are going to be Congress
Gobindpura (Mansa), Sept 3: The Congress led by Capt Amarinder Singh in Punjab on Friday, in a major political stroke, jumped into the ongoing farmers agitation against land acquisition for a private sector thermal power
Chandigarh, June 9: Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee President Capt Amarinder Singh has written to Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal urging him to revoke the orders of leasing 28 acres of land at village
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