When the Congress Captain joined the Akali Dal after resigning from the Lok Sabha

Captain Amarinder Singh is the person who is the biggest face of Congress in Punjab. When the Congress was facing defeat in many states of the country, at that time Captain was the leader who managed to get the party to conquer the fort of Punjab on his own. Today is his birthday. Let us know all those things on the birthday of Captain, which tells the ups and downs of his political career graph.

# Captain Amarinder Singh served in the Indian Army from 1963 to 1966 after being passedout from NDA and IMA. There is talk of the 1965 war over the captain again and again. But very few people know that he had already resigned before this. At the time when the circumstances of the war, Captain Amarinder was called back into the army. And as former army chief JJ Singh, 'Captain thought it better to do administrative work than to fight in the field.'

# Do you know who brought Captain Amarinder Singh into politics? Rajiv Gandhi. Yes, Amarinder and Rajiv were school friends. While Rajiv's brother Sanjay selected Bhindranwale to put a brake on the growing popularity of the Akali Dal, on the other hand, Rajiv asked the captain to contest the election as a Sikh leader. Contested Lok Sabha elections in 1980. But in 1984, hurt by the military action at the Golden Temple, Captain Amarinder resigned from the Lok Sabha.

A case of bank scam has been registered against the son-in-law of Punjab CM Amarinder Singh.

A case of bank scam has been registered against the son-in-law of Punjab CM Amarinder Singh.

# When Punjab Congress was talked about in the last 25 years, then the face of Captain Amarinder would be the first to appear. But the same Congress captain resigned from the Lok Sabha in 1984 and joined the Akali Dal. He was also made a cabinet minister in the Akali Dal. He continued to work as Minister of Agriculture, Forest, Development and Panchayat.

# In 1992, the Captain split from the Akali Dal. Formed his own party, named Akali Dal (Panthak). This party was different from the Akali Dal (Longowal).

# 1992 elections were held thrice. Captain Amarinder Singh's party could not leave any impression. In 1998, Captain again joined Congress. The Captain contested from Patiala but Professor Prem Singh Chandumajra defeated him. Congress also lost in the state. Prakash Singh Badal became the Chief Minister.

The tension between the Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh is linked to Khalistan.

The tension between the Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh is linked to Khalistan.

# Captain was made Congress state president for the first time in 1999. In 2002 too, Congress played its role as state president in the assembly elections and won 62 seats and formed a government in Punjab.

# In 2008, Captain Amarinder was dismissed from the Special Committee of the Punjab Legislative Assembly due to the manipulation of ground transaction transactions. However, in 2010, the Supreme Court termed this dismissal as non-constitutional.

# Captain was being contested from Patiala in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections. But in Amritsar, BJP fielded Arun Jaitley in place of Navjot Sidhu. And then the Congress High Command also sent the captain to fight Arun Jaitley. Captain defeated Jaitley in spite of Modi wave. The Captain resigned from this Lok Sabha seat in Amritsar last year due to the SYL issue.

# There was an anti-incumbency against the 10-year rule of the Akali Dal in the Punjab assembly elections in 2017, but the growing stature of the Aam Aadmi Party in the state was also a cause for concern for the Congress. Because in the earlier Lok Sabha elections, AAP, which was contesting for the first time, registered 4 seats out of 13. During the 2017 assembly elections, the AAP had everything. But there was no face to present as CM. Who could stand in front of the captain. The result was that the Aam Aadmi Party, which dreams of power, was reduced to just 19 seats out of 117, and the Congress was formed with 80 seats under the captainship of the Congress.

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