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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In his resignation letter, Singh has expressed concern over Congress's decision to appoint Navjot Singh Sidhu as Punjab Congress President and has written to Sonia Gandhi that one day the Congress high command will have to regret its decision.
The former chief minister had said he would launch his new political party as and when the Election Commission clears the name and the symbol He had also slammed the Congress while claiming that many people from the party are in touch with him.
Amarinder Singh on Wednesday said he will launch his new political party when the Election Commission clears the name and symbol, and claimed that many people from the Congress are in touch with him.
This will be Amarinder Singh's second meeting with Amit Shah after he resigned as the Chief Minister of Punjab on September 18.
The Punjab government has decided to call a special session of the Legislative Assembly on November 8. We demand the Centre abolish farm laws by November 8 or else, we will abolish them at the special session on November 8, said Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi.
Captain Amarinder Singh had resigned as the Punjab chief minister last month amid a bitter power tussle with Punjab Congress chief Sidhu. After resigning, he had said that he felt “humiliated”.
Singh is expected to announce the launch of his own political party — the Punjab Lok Congress — on Wednesday ahead of the Assembly elections slated for early next year.
Amarinder Singh quit the Congress last month after the party leadership asked him to vacate the Chief Minister's chair. Singh was replaced by Charanjit Singh Channi.
In a series of tweets on Sunday, Tewari questioned the progress on issues like the 2015 sacrilege incidents, drug menace and power purchase pacts. He also hit out at Congress general secretary Harish Rawat over his reference in an interview.
Amarinder Singh on the other hand said that Alam had been coming to India for 16 years with due clearances from the Centre.
The deputy chief minister said it 'would be probed' whether Aroosa Alam has any links with Pakistan's spy agency Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), adding that he has asked the Director General of Police (DGP) to look into it.
Harsimrat Kaur Badal alleged that there was a deal between Captain Amarinder Singh and the BJP to brush under the carpet the corruption investigation going on against the Captain and his family members.
Punjab Congress Chief Sidhu's remark came two days after Amarinder Singh said he would launch his own political party and that he was hopeful of a seat arrangement with the BJP, provided the ongoing farmers' stir against farm laws was resolved in the agriculturists' interest.
The announcement by Captain of a possible alliance with the BJP in the upcoming Assembly elections had started a war of words between the senior leader and many other Congressmen.
The Congress leaders are watching his moves ahead of the new party formation and sources say that all the Congress members have distanced themselves after he worked out a "patch up formula" with the BJP.
Announcing that he will launch his own political outfit soon, Amarinder Singh on Tuesday had said that he is hopeful of a seat arrangement with the BJP if the farmers' issue is resolved in their interest.
The Congress veteran had resigned as the chief minister of Punjab, capping months of a power tussle that had polarised the ruling party in the state headed for elections in just about four months.
Many party leaders admitted that Amarinder Singh will give the BJP's campaign a major boost and any tie-up will happen only once he clarifies his stand.
Amarinder Singh also slammed Congress leader Pargat Singh for saying that the former was in the BJP while he was also heading the Congress in the state, and said that this move was 'heights of irresponsibility'.
Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi is meeting former Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh at his farmhouse, in Siswan, Mohali.
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