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 Punjab government took strong exception to the Centre's reported move of empowering the BSF to carry out searches and make arrests up to an area of 50 km from the international border.
Five soldiers, including a junior commissioned officer (JCO) were killed on Monday in a gunfight with the terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch district. Reacting to this, the former Punjab CM said, "our worst fears are coming true"
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal took to Twitter and responded to Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi's remark where the latter questioned his dressing sense and asked somebody to give him Rs 5,000.
Amarinder Singh had resigned as the Chief Minister of Punjab on September 18 following months of infighting between him and Navjot Singh Sidhu. The development came months ahead of the 2022 Assembly elections.
Captain's remarks came after Surjewala claimed that 78 of the 79 Punjab Congress MLAs had written to the party leadership seeking former CM’s ouster.
Surjewala’s remarks came as Amarinder Singh had accused the Congress leadership of "humiliating" him after he tendered his resignation as the Punjab CM.
The Shiv Sena mouthpiece Saamna said that if the matter of border security was that important then it should have been discussed with the present-day Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi instead of Captain Amarinder Singh.
The ex-CM of Punjab recalled that Rawat himself had publicly stated after meeting him that he was satisfied by his government’s track record on the 2017 poll promises.
Amarinder Singh on Thursday said that he will leave the Congress which he asserted was going downhill with senior leaders being ignored. The politician said that he had been "utterly humiliated" and was not trusted.
Questions are being asked as to who is running the party. Congress working president Sonia Gandhi is facing health-related issues. She is unable to devote full time to the party. On her behalf, Rahul Gandhi is taking important decisions.
Former Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh has condemned the killing of a well-known Sikh 'hakeem' inside his clinic in Pakistan's restive northwestern city of Peshawar.
Amarinder Singh on Thursday said that he was leaving the Congress party and scotched speculation of his joining the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi is coming to Delhi today to meet party leadership amid the ongoing infighting in the party's state unit.
The Centre on Thursday postponed procurement of kharif paddy in Punjab and Haryana till October 11 as the crop maturity is delayed owing to recent heavy rains.
Chief spokesperson of the Congress Randeep Surjewala said the party president had indicated last week that a meeting of the CWC, the top decision-making body of the party, would be called very soon.
The Congress high command has once again asked Harish Rawat to mediate between CM Channi and Navjot Sidhu, sources added. It was also reported that the party top brass is in no mood to relent and give in to Sidhu's demands this time.
Captain Amarinder Singh is returning to Chandigarh today after spending two days in Delhi, meeting Home Minister Amit Shah and announcing his departure from the Congress party.
Denying any move to join the BJP, Captain Amarinder said he would leave the Congress where he had been utterly humiliated and was not trusted.
Amarinder Singh is in Delhi for the last two days and his meeting with Amit Shah has added another dimension to Punjab politics.
Amarinder Singh is likely to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Delhi today amid speculations that he could join the BJP.
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