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 BJP, which has so far contested elections in Punjab with Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), will contest 70 of the 117 Assembly seats.
"Instead of doing the Bhangra all day CM Punjab should advice his home minister to get active and come out of denial mode," Amarinder Singh said in a tweet.
Amarinder resigned as the CM of Punjab in September this year. Singh formed his own party Punjab Lok Congress days after he resigned as the chief minister and quit the Congress.
Five poll-bound states are Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Manipur, Goa and Punjab. Elections in these states will be held in February-March next year.
Amarinder Singh had an unceremonious exit from the Congress in September when he was forced to resign as the Punjab chief minister amid a power tussle with state party chief Navjot Singh Sidhu.
The former Chief Minister was reacting to reports of Punjab cops stopping PLC workers who were putting up posters in the Malwa region.
Addressing a presser, Charanjit Singh Channi said announced that tractor drivers, garbage collectors who are hired on a contract basis will be made permanent.
The development comes as legislative assembly elections are approaching in Punjab.
Charanjit Singh Channi alleged that Amarinder Singh and SAD chief Sukhbir Singh Badal were 'befooling' the people of Punjab.
Amarinder Singh said Maken was not qualified enough to head the screening committee with veteran leaders like Ambika Soni and Sunil Jakhar being kept under him.
Amarinder Singh quit the Congress and launched his Punjab Lok Congress after his unceremonious exit as the Punjab chief minister in September. Addressing the media after opening his party office, Singh said the membership drive of his outfit had already begun.
Amarinder Singh had earlier said that any seat arrangement he made with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) would be subject to a resolution of the farmers' issues in their interest.
Amarinder Singh had floated his new party Punjab Lok Congress soon after leaving the Congress after stepping down as chief minister of Punjab. Punjab is scheduled to go for Assembly polls in 2022.
Congress has also warned Kaur of disciplinary action if she fails to produce the explanation within 7 days.
The Patiala assembly seat has been the family bastion of the former chief minister. He had represented the seat four times -- 2002, 2007, 2012 and 2017.
Former Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Friday thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for announcing to repeal three farm laws.
Randhawa in a statement said the former Chief Minister, who also held the Home Portfolio, had then ordered the reinstatement of the police officer while withholding just one increment despite the then Additional Chief Secretary, Home, not writing in favour of the officer.
Amarinder Singh on Tuesday had resigned from the Congress, accusing party president Sonia Gandhi and Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra of hatching a "midnight conspiracy" to oust him.
Captain sent a seven-page resignation letter to party president Sonia Gandhi, sources said. Singh had quit as the Punjab chief minister in September amid a bitter power tussle with state Congress chief Navjot Sidhu.
He sent a seven-page resignation letter to party president Sonia Gandhi, sources said. Singh had quit as the Punjab chief minister in September amid a bitter power tussle with state Congress chief Navjot Sidhu.
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