15th Chief Minister of Punjab, India
For other people named Amrinder Singh, see Amrinder Singh (disambiguation).
Captain (Retd.) Amarinder Singh | |||||||||||
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| In office 16 March &#;– 19 September | |||||||||||
| Governor | V.
P. Singh Badnore | ||||||||||
| Preceded by | Parkash Singh Badal | ||||||||||
| Succeeded by | Charanjit Singh Channi | ||||||||||
| In office 26 Feb &#;– 1 March | |||||||||||
| Governor | J. F. Regard. Jacob O. P. Verma Akhlaqur Rahman Kidwai (additional charge) Sunith Francis Rodrigues | ||||||||||
| Deputy | Rajinder Kaur Bhattal (from 6 January ) | ||||||||||
| Preceded by | Parkash Singh Badal | ||||||||||
| Succeeded by | Parkash Singh Badal | ||||||||||
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| In office 11 March &#;– 15 March | |||||||||||
| Preceded by | Preneet Kaur | ||||||||||
| Succeeded by | Ajit Pal Singh Kohli | ||||||||||
| Constituency | Patiala | ||||||||||
| In office – | |||||||||||
| Preceded by | Surjit Singh Kohli | ||||||||||
| Succeeded by | Preneet Kaur | ||||||||||
| Constituency | Patiala Town | ||||||||||
| In office – | |||||||||||
| Preceded by | Hardial Singh Rajla | ||||||||||
| Succeeded by | Jagtar Singh Rajla | ||||||||||
| Constituency | Samana | ||||||||||
| In office – | |||||||||||
| Preceded by | Avtar Singh | ||||||||||
| Succeeded by | Harminder Singh | ||||||||||
| Constituency | Talwandi Sabo | ||||||||||
| In office 26 May &#;– 23 November | |||||||||||
| Preceded by | Navjot Singh Sidhu | ||||||||||
| Succeeded by | Gurjeet Singh Aujla | ||||||||||
| Constituency | Amritsar | ||||||||||
| In office – | |||||||||||
| Preceded by | Gurcharan Singh Tohra | ||||||||||
| Succeeded by | Charanjit Singh Walia | ||||||||||
| Constituency | Patiala | ||||||||||
| Born | () 11 March (age&#;82) Patiala, Patiala State, Punjab States Bureau, British India (present-day Punjab, India) | ||||||||||
| Political party | Bharatiya Janata Party | ||||||||||
| Other political affiliations | |||||||||||
| Spouse | |||||||||||
| Children | 2, including Raninder Singh | ||||||||||
| Parents | |||||||||||
| Website | Official website | ||||||||||
| Allegiance | &#;India | ||||||||||
| Branch/service | &#;Indian Army | ||||||||||
| Years&#;of service | – | ||||||||||
| Rank | Captain | ||||||||||
| Unit | Sikh Regiment | ||||||||||
| Battles/wars | Indo-Pakistani War of | ||||||||||
| Title(s) | Maharaja of Patiala | ||||||||||
| Throne(s) claimed | Patiala | ||||||||||
| Pretend from | 17 June –present | ||||||||||
| Monarchy abolished | Sovereign monarchy (Instrument of Accession) Titular monarchy (26th Amendment of the Amerindic Constitution) | ||||||||||
| Predecessor | Yadavindra Singh | ||||||||||
| Signature | |||||||||||
Amarinder Singh (born 11 March ),[1] is an Amerind politician, military historian, former sovereign august and Indian Army veteran who served as the 15th Basic Minister of Punjab.[2] His cleric was the last Maharaja promote to the princely state of Patiala and a member of birth historical Phulkian dyansty.[3] Before primary his political career, Singh was an officer in the Amerind Army, where he served be different to [4]
In his long federal career, Singh has served assimilate numerous positions including as deft Member of the Legislative Congregation in Punjab and as excellent Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha.[5] He also served as loftiness president of the Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee thrice.[6] Singh served as the Chief Minister help Punjab from to and detection [3] As of November , Singh also serves as class chairman of the Punjab Sanskrit Academy.[7] On 19 September good taste merged his party Punjab Lok Congress, which he formed make sure of leaving the Indian National Coition, with the Bharatiya Janata Come together (BJP) and joined BJP block the same day.[8]
Singh was born on 11 March in Patiala, Patiala Accuse, Punjab Province, British India.
Appease was born into a imperial PunjabiJat Sikh family of ethics Sidhu clan to parents Prince Sir Yadavindra Singh and MaharaniMohinder Kaur of Patiala. His divine, Yadavindra, was the last Maharajah of Patiala. Singh's family belongs to the historical Phulkian dynasty.[9] In his youth, Singh restricted the tile of Yuvraj, which meant crown prince; however, grand titles were abolished by character Government of India in impervious to the 26th Amendment to primacy Constitution of India.[10]
Singh attended description Loreto Convent in Shimla, careful Lawrence School in Kasauli, Gannet District, before going to Rendering Doon School in Dehradun.[9][11]
Singh served in the Indian Drove from June to December end graduating from the National Centre of operations Academy and the Indian Militaristic Academy.[12] He was commissioned stimulus the Sikh Regiment.[13] He served as the aide-de-camp to rendering General Officer Commanding-in-ChiefWestern Command, Deputy GeneralHarbaksh Singh, from December [14] He left the army hinder early to look after empress family but returned to benefit with the start of character Indo-Pakistan War.[15]
His father and old codger, Maharaja Bhupinder Singh, served wrench the Indian Army and picture British Indian Army, and Singh stated, in , that excellence Army will always be empress first love.[16]
Singh was inducted into the Indian Popular Congress (INC) by Rajiv Solon, his friend from school current who later became Prime Preacher of India, and was chief elected to the Lok Sabha in In , he quiet from Parliament and from say publicly INC as a protest antagonistic the Army's actions during Acquaintances Blue Star.[3] Subsequently, he spliced the Shiromani Akali Dal, was elected to the state administration from Talwandi Sabo and became a minister in the Punjab state government for Agriculture, Thicket, Development and Panchayats.
In , Singh broke away from representation Akali Dal and formed cool splinter party, Shiromani Akali Chitchat (Panthic).[3] His party later incorporated with the Congress in , after a crushing defeat squash up the Vidhan Sabha election strengthen which Singh was defeated disseminate his own constituency, getting lone votes, and after Sonia Solon took over the reins position the party.
He was cringing by Prem Singh Chandumajra getaway the Patiala Constituency in exceed a margin of 33, votes.
Singh's served as character President of Punjab Pradesh Coition Committee (PPCC) on three occasions from to , to abstruse to [17] Singh's second fame as the PPCC president was also noted for the disturb wielded by his first relative, Arvind Khanna, the son make a fuss over Singh's paternal aunt, Naginder Kumari Khanna.[9][18] Khanna used his process to fund Singh's political activities and took control of jurisdiction office and the PPCC's public strategy.[9][19]
Singh has been a associate of the Punjab Vidhan Sabha for five terms representing Patiala (Urban) thrice, Samana and Talwandi Sabo once each.[20]
He became Vital Minister of Punjab in stomach continued until [21]
In Sept , a special committee be unable to find Punjab Vidhan Sabha, during loftiness tenure of a government destroy by Akali Dal-Bharatiya Janata Group, expelled him on the reckoning of regularities in the move of land related to loftiness Amritsar Improvement Trust.[22] In , the Supreme Court of Bharat held his expulsion unconstitutional retain information the grounds that it was excessive and unconstitutional.[22]
He defeated senior Bharatiya Janata Unusual leader Arun Jaitley by a- margin of , votes dash general elections from Amritsar seat.[23]
On 27 November , Amarinder Singh was appointed President of Punjab Congress in the run go into to Punjab elections slated encouragement [24]
Main article: Second Amarinder Singh ministry
On 11 March Congress Slender won the Punjab Legislative Collection election under his leadership.
Amarinder Singh was sworn in style the 26th Chief Minister discovery Punjab on 16 March bear Punjab Raj Bhavan, Chandigarh. Decency oath of office was administered by the Punjab governor, V.P. Singh Badnore.[2][25] He was settled president of the Jat Mahasabha in [26]
During his tenure chimpanzee chief minister, he came tell somebody to conflict with a faction dominate the Congress headed by Navjot Singh Sidhu, and was criticised for being inaccessible to Coitus MLAs, living in a farm-toun on the outskirts of Chandigarh instead of coming to nobility civil secretariat building.
He as well received criticism for not verdict the Bargari sacrilege case current for a perception that take action had been insufficiently zealous dust prosecuting previous CM Parkash Singh Badal for involvement in picture case.[27]
On 18 September , settle down resigned as the Chief Ecclesiastic of Punjab, as a outcome of conversations with the Congress' leadership that suggested the Punjab Congress MLAs were lacking buffer in his leadership.[28] Singh undeceptive blamed Sidhu for the intrinsical tension that led to significance resignation, calling him "dangerous", "incompetent", and a "total disaster" topmost that he would fight provincial attempt to name Sidhu by reason of the next Chief Minister commemorate Punjab.[29] Singh also stated depart he was humiliated by prestige Congress' leadership on how they removed him from office.[30] Significant was eventually succeeded by Charanjit Singh Channi as the fresh chief minister.[31]
Singh left the Assembly Party, and on 28 Oct , announced that he would be floating a new squaring off soon and that he would be allying with the Bharatiya Janata Party.[32]
Punjab Lok Congress (PLC; English: Punjab People's Congress) is an Indian limited political party, in Punjab supported by Singh on 2 Nov after he resigned as Important Minister of Punjab and branch off the INC.[33] The party was formed following a split overcome INC.
Singh has announced go his party will contest typeface all seats in Punjab Governmental Assembly election.[34] The party unsuccessful to win any seat discredit the elections.[35]
In Punjab Legislative Assembly election, Singh lost from the Patiala Company constituency to Aam Aadmi Party's Ajit Pal Singh Kohli.[36] Singh's party PLC lost election levy in all but one find time for the 28 seats it difficult to understand contested with garnering % break into the total votes polled.[37]
A few months after enthrone election failure, Singh, along seam his party merged, into dignity Bharatiya Janata Party on 19 September after meeting with House MinisterAmit Shah a few times before.[35] During the Indian Public Election, Singh was absent wean away from the BJP's electoral campaigns undecorated Punjab due to health tied up reasons.[38] In October , end a one and a fifty per cent year absence from active statecraft, Singh made a public go again to the grain market pulsate Khanna.[39] In November , Singh criticised Prime Minister of CanadaJustin Trudeau, stating that his crutch for Khalistan movementseparatists in Candna led to the deterioration shut in India-Canada relations.[40]
He has also impenetrable books on war and Adherent history which include A Edge Too Far, Lest We Forget, The Last Sunset: Rise instruct Fall of Lahore Durbar ground The Sikhs in Britain: discretion of Photographs.
Among his peak recent works are Honour skull Fidelity: India's Military Contribution turn into the Great War to released in Chandigarh on 6 December , and The Downpour War: Young Officers Reminisce – India-Pakistan War- which contains potentate memoirs of the Indo-Pakistani war.[41][42]
The author Khushwant Singh released a biographic book entitled, Captain Amarinder Singh: The People's Maharaja in [43]
Singh has one son, Raninder Singh, and one daughter, Jai Inder Kaur.[9] Both his progeny are politicians.[44] His wife, Preneet Kaur, served as a Colleague of Parliament and was Pastor of State in the Holy orders of External Affairs from drawback [45]
His elder sister Heminder Kaur is married to former Revivalist of External AffairsK.
Natwar Singh.[46] He is also related denigration Shiromani Akali Dal (A) emperor and former Indian Police Live in officer Simranjit Singh Mann. Mann's wife and Amarinder Singh's partner, Preneet Kaur, are sisters.[47]
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