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Congress to challenge Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act in court: Amarinder Singh

Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Tuesday said t...

15 Sep, 2020, 11.16 PM IST

Punjab CM Amarinder Singh opposes challenge to Gandhi family leadership

The veteran Congress leader said the NDA's success was attributable t...

23 Aug, 2020, 04.38 PM IST

Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh tests negative for COVID-19; ends self-isolation

The CM had gone into seven-day self-quarantine on Augu...

05 Sep, 2020, 05.39 PM IST

Punjab: 23 MLAs, ministers tested positive for COVID-19, says CM Amarinder Singh

Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Wednesday said twen...

26 Aug, 2020, 10.53 PM IST

amarinder singh

Head of the royal family of the erstwhile State of Patiala, he was Chief Minister of Punjab from 2002 to 2007. Presently, he is the sitting President of the Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee (PPCC). He was also the Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the 16th Lok Sabha till 2016, having been chosen for the position after his election as a Member of Parliament from Amritsar, where he defeated the prominent BJP leader Arun Jaitley. He was inducted into the Congress by Rajiv Gandhi, who was his friend from school and was first elected to the Lok Sabha in 1980. In 1984, he resigned from Parliament and from Congress as a protest against the Army action during Operation Blue Star. Five-time CM Parkash Singh Badal is facing perhaps the toughest political challenge Amarinder Singh takes him on from the Lambi seat. He is Congress' chief ministerial candidate.

Party: Congress

Constituency: Lambi

Born: 11 March 1942

None will be spared: Punjab CM Amarinder Singh to hooch tragedy victims' families
07 Aug, 2020, 12.33 PM IST
Singh said the death toll in the tragedy rose to 121 with eight more people succumbing in Tarn Taran, taking the toll in the district to 92, while 15 had died in Amritsar and 14 in Gurdaspur.
23 ministers, MLAs COVID-19 positive, says Punjab CM, Amarinder Singh
26 Aug, 2020, 10.58 PM IST
With this, the CM tried to emphasise that the scenario was not conducive for holding physical examination for JEE-NEET. The chief minister, however, did not disclose how many of Punjab MLAs and ministers have recovered so far.
Punjab CM Amarinder Singh calls Centre’s recent GST move atrocious
06 Sep, 2020, 07.16 AM IST
The Centre’s total lack of support is not helping matters, of course. Not only have they not extended any significant Covid relief aid, but they have also held back our GST compensation., said Punjab CM while replying to a question
Punjab will burn: At meeting with Haryana CM, Amarinder Singh says SYL emotive issue
18 Aug, 2020, 09.13 PM IST
Meeting Haryana CM Manohar Lal Khattar and Union Jal Shakti Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat through a video link, the Punjab CM argued that the SYL canal issue could disturb national security.
Won't spare any politician or public servant found complicit in hooch tragedy: Punjab CM
04 Aug, 2020, 05.23 PM IST
The chief minister said he would finish off the liquor mafia in the state. Nobody will be allowed to get away with this, he added.
Firm supplying smartphones to Punjab govt clarifies it has no China connection: Amarinder Singh
28 Jul, 2020, 07.04 PM IST
An official release quoting Singh said Tuesday, "The Chief Minister said the first batch of 50,000 smartphones had arrived from the company, which had now clarified that it had no connection with China."
Punjab CM goes into self-quarantine after 2 Congress MLAs test COVID-19 positive
28 Aug, 2020, 10.22 PM IST
"Punjab chief minister @capt_amarinder has decided to go into 7-day self quarantine, as per government protocol and the advise of his doctors, after two MLAs who met him in the Vidhan Sabha tested positive for #COVID19," tweeted Raveen Thukral, the media advisor to the chief minister. Singh and Zira represent Shutrana and Zira seats, respectively.
Sonia Gandhi rallies Opposition CMs against Centre amid rift in Congress
26 Aug, 2020, 11.07 PM IST
The virtual meeting convened by Congress president Sonia Gandhi was also designed to display her outreach with Opposition CMs despite the current rift in the Congress leadership, and the link of the Zoom meeting, hence, was sent to journalists covering the beat. At the meeting, the four Congress CMs and their Maharashtra, West Bengal and Jharkhand counterparts vowed to constantly maintain unity against the Centre’s “unilateralism” and “bulldozing.”
Sign of weakness makes Chinese more belligerent: Punjab CM Amarinder Singh
17 Jun, 2020, 07.22 AM IST
Our soldiers are not fair game that every few days officers and men are being killed and injured defending our borders. It is time now for the Govt of India to take some stringent measures. Each sign of weakness on our part makes the Chinese reaction more belligerent, Punjab CM Captain Amarinder Singh said in a tweet.
Several Congress leaders throw weight behind Gandhi family on CWC eve
23 Aug, 2020, 11.54 PM IST
Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh, Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel, Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, Puducherry Chief Minister V Narayanasamy, Congress leader in Lok Sabha Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury and former ministers Ashwani Kumar, Salman Khurshid and KK Tewary, among others, backed the Gandhis.
Decoding the "23 against 1 Rahul Gandhi" letter and what it means for Congress
24 Aug, 2020, 09.40 AM IST
The letter has less to do with Sonia Gandhi and more to do with Rahul Gandhi. The letter is a pre-emptive strike to prevent him from becoming party chief again, or conduct his style of backseat driving.