Amarinder Singh - Wikipedia Amarinder Singh For the footballer of similar name, see Amrinder Singh. Captain Amarinder Singh 26th Chief Minister of Punjab Incumbent Assumed office 16 March 2017 Governor V.P. Singh Badnore Preceded by Parkash Singh Badal In office 26 February 2002 -- 1 March 2007 Preceded by Parkash Singh Badal Succeeded by Parkash Singh Badal Member of the Legislative Assembly Incumbent Assumed office 11 March 2017 Preceded by Preneet Kaur Constituency Patiala Urban In office 2002 -- 2014 Preceded by Surjit Singh Kohli Succeeded by Preneet Kaur Constituency Patiala Town In office 1992 -- 1997 Preceded by Hardial Singh Rajla Succeeded by Jagtar Singh Rajla Constituency Samana In office 1985 -- 1992 Preceded by Avtar Singh Succeeded by Harminder Singh Constituency Talwandi Sabo Member of Parliament In office 26 May 2014 -- 23 November 2016 Preceded by Navjot Singh Sidhu Succeeded by Gurjit Singh Aujla Constituency Amritsar In office 1980 -- 1984 Preceded by Gurcharan Singh Tohra Succeeded by Charanjit Singh Walia Constituency Patiala Personal details ( 1942 - 03 - 11 ) 11 March 1942 ( age 76 ) Patiala, Punjab, British India Political party Indian National Congress ( 1980 -- 84 ; 1998 -- present ) Other political affiliations Shiromani Akali Dal ( 1984 -- 92 ) Shiromani Akali Dal ( Panthic ) ( 1992 -- 98 ) Spouse ( s ) Preneet Kaur ( m. 1964 ) Children 2, including Raninder Singh Parents Yadavindra Singh Mohinder Kaur Website Official website Military service Allegiance India Service / branch Indian Army Years of service 1963 -- 1965 Rank Captain Unit Sikh Regiment Residence of Amarinder Singh, New Moti Bagh Palace, Patiala. Captain Amarinder Singh ( born 11 March 1942 ) is an Indian politician, who is currently the 26th Chief Minister of Punjab. An elected Member of the Legislative Assembly from Patiala, he was also the president of Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee, the state division of the Indian National Congress. He has also previously served as the Chief Minister of Punjab from 2002 - 2007. His father was the last Maharaja of the princely state of Patiala. He also served in the Indian Army from 1963 to 1966. In 1980, he won a seat in the Lok Sabha for the first time. He currently also serves as the chairman of the Punjab Urdu Academy. Contents 1 Personal life 2 Army career 3 Political career 4 President of All India Jat Maha Sabha 5 Books 6 References Personal life Singh is the son of Maharaja Yadavindra Singh and Maharani Mohinder Kaur of Patiala belonging to the Phulkian dynasty of Sidhu Brar descent. He attended the Welham Boys ' School and Lawrence School Sanawar before going to The Doon School, Dehradun. He has one son, Raninder Singh, and one daughter, Jai Inder Kaur, who is married to a Delhi - based businessman, Gurpal Singh. His wife, Preneet Kaur, served as an MP and was Minister of State in the Ministry of External Affairs from 2009 to 2014. His elder sister Heminder Kaur is married to former foreign minister K. Natwar Singh. He is also related to Shiromani Akali Dal ( A ) supremo and former IPS Officer Simranjit Singh Mann. Mann 's wife and Amarinder Singh 's wife, Preneet Kaur, are sisters. Army career He joined the Indian Army in June 1963 after graduating from the National Defence Academy and Indian Military Academy before resigning in early 1965. He rejoined the Army again as hostilities broke out with Pakistan and served as Captain in the 1965 Indo - Pakistan War. He served in the Sikh Regiment. Political career 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. Subsequently, he joined the Shiromani Akali Dal was elected to the state legislature from Talwandi Sabo and became a minister in the state government for Agriculture, Forest, Development and Panchayats. In 1992 he broke away from the Akali Dal and formed a splinter group named Shiromani Akali Dal ( Panthic ) which later merged with the Congress in 1998 ( after his party 's crushing defeat in Vidhan Sabha election in which he himself was defeated from his own constituency where he got only 856 votes ) after Sonia Gandhi took over the reign of the party. He was defeated by Prof Prem Singh Chandumajra from Patiala Constituency in 1998 by a whooping margin of 33251 votes. He served as the President of Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee on two occasions from 1999 to 2002 and 2010 to 2013, he also became Chief Minister of Punjab in 2002 and continued until 2007. In September 2008, a special committee of Punjab Vidhan Sabha, during the tenure of a government led by Akali Dal - Bharatiya Janata Party, expelled him on the count of regularities in the transfer of land related to the Amritsar Improvement Trust. In 2010, the Supreme Court of India held his expulsion unconstitutional on the grounds that it was excessive and unconstitutional. He was appointed as chairman of Punjab Congress Campaign Committee in 2008. Captain Amarinder Singh is also a Permanent Invitee to the Congress Working Committee since 2013. He defeated senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley by a margin of more than 1, 02,000 votes in 2014 general elections. He has been a member of the Punjab Vidhan Sabha for five terms representing Patiala ( Urban ) thrice, Samana and Talwandi Sabo once each. On 27 November 2015, Amarinder Singh was appointed President of Punjab Congress in the run up to Punjab elections slated for 2017. On 11 March 2017 Congress Party won the State Assembly Elections under his leadership. Amrinder Singh was sworn in as the 26th Chief Minister of Punjab on 16 March 2017 at Punjab Raj Bhavan, Chandigarh. The oath of office was administered by the Punjab governor, V.P. Singh Badnore. Right Now CM to take the final call about `` Atta dal Scheme '' in Punjab. President of all India Jat maha Sabha Capt Amarinder Singh is president of the Jat Mahasabha since 2013. Books He has also written books on war and Sikh history which include A Ridge Too Far, Lest We Forget, The Last Sunset : Rise and Fall of Lahore Durbar and The Sikhs in Britain : 150 years of Photographs. Among his most recent works are Honour and Fidelity : India 's Military Contribution to the Great War 1914 to 1918 released in Chandigarh on 6 December 2014, and The Monsoon War : Young Officers Reminisce -- 1965 India - Pakistan War - which contains his memoirs of the 1965 Indo - Pak war. References Jump up ^ Quint, The. `` Punjab Live : Modi Congratulates Amarinder, Wishes Him Happy B'Day ''. The Quint. Retrieved 11 March 2017. Jump up ^ `` Amarinder Singh sworn in as Punjab CM ''. The Hindu. The Hindu. 16 March 2017. Retrieved 16 March 2017. Jump up ^ Goswami, Dev. `` Punjab election results 2017 : Full list of winners ''. indiatoday.intoday.in. Living Media India Limited. Retrieved 16 March 2017. Jump up ^ `` Congress In States - Punjab ''. inc.in. All India Congress Committee. Retrieved 16 March 2017. ^ Jump up to : `` Who is Capt Amarinder Singh ? Everything you need to know ''. The Indian Express. Express Web Desk. 16 March 2017. Retrieved 16 March 2017. Jump up ^ `` Captain Amarinder back in charge in Punjab for second time ''. The New Indian Express. PTI. 16 March 2017. Retrieved 16 March 2017. Jump up ^ `` Punjab Urdu Academy ''. www.punjaburduacademy.com. Retrieved 2018 - 02 - 16. Jump up ^ http://www.royalark.net/India/jind.htm Jump up ^ Sharma, Pratul ( 19 January 2012 ). `` Captain goes all guns blazing : Congress 's Amarinder Singh insists he has n't mellowed and is sure of victory in Punjab as he takes on the Badals ''. Daily Mail. London. Jump up ^ `` ' Seven Doscos in 15th Lok Sabha ' ''. The Indian Express. 31 May 2009. Jump up ^ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/indiahome/indianews/article-2397441/Himachal-Pradesh-CMs-daughter-wed-Amarinders-grandson.html Jump up ^ 1965 War, the Inside Story : Defence Minister Y.B. Chavan 's Diary of India - Pakistan War. Atlantic Publishers & Dist. 1 January 2007. pp. xii. Retrieved 13 March 2017. Jump up ^ `` Cong, SAD lay claim to Abdul Hamid Hold parallel rallies to pay homage ''. The Tribune. 9 September 2003. Retrieved 13 March 2017. Jump up ^ `` Army 's account of 1965 war padded, says Capt 's new book ''. Hindustan Times. Retrieved 13 March 2017. ^ Jump up to : Dhananjay Mahapatra, Dhananjay ( 27 April 2010 ). `` ' Amarinder 's removal undemocratic ' ''. Times of India. Jump up ^ `` ' Amarinder appointed Captain of Punjab Congress ' ''. Daily Post India. 27 November 2015. Archived from the original on 8 December 2015. Jump up ^ `` Amarinder Singh sworn in as Punjab CM ''. The Hindu. The Hindu. 16 March 2017. Retrieved 16 March 2017. Jump up ^ `` Captain Amarinder Sworn In as Punjab CM, Nine Ministers Inducted ''. The Quint. Retrieved 2017 - 03 - 16. Jump up ^ http://forfeeds.com/health/cm-take-final-call-atta-dal-scheme-punjab/ Jump up ^ `` Capt Amarinder Singh is Jat mahasabha chief ''. Hindustan Times. Press Trust of India ( PTI ). 13 May 2013. Archived from the original on 9 July 2018. Retrieved 9 July 2018. Jump up ^ http://indianexpress.com/article/lifestyle/books/the-war-no-one-lost/ Jump up ^ http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2015-09-21/news/66761141_1_great-war-new-book-1965-indo-pak-war Lok Sabha Preceded by Gurcharan Singh Tohra Member of Parliament for Patiala 1980 -- 1984 Succeeded by Sardar Charanjit Singh Walia Preceded by Navjot Singh Sidhu Member of Parliament for Amritsar 2014 -- 2017 Succeeded by Gurjeet Singh Aujla Political offices Preceded by Parkash Singh Badal Chief Minister of Punjab 26 February 2002 -- 1 March 2007 Succeeded by Parkash Singh Badal Preceded by Parkash Singh Badal Chief Minister of Punjab 16 March 2017 -- Present Succeeded by Incumbent Sikh politics Organisations Ghadar Party Shiromani Akali Dal Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee Haryana State Akali Dal Shiromani Akali Dal ( Amritsar ) Shiromani Akali Dal ( Longowal ) Akali Dal ( 1920 ) United Akali Dal Shiromani Akali Dal ( Panthic ) Shiromani Akali Dal ( Democratic ) All India Sikh Students Federation Rashtriya Sikh Sangat Shiromani Akali Dal Delhi Pakistan Sikh Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee Leaders Master Tara Singh Sardul Singh Caveeshar Baldev Singh Swaran Singh Jagjit Singh Chohan Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale Surjit Singh Barnala Capt. 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