Manmohan Singh is an Indian retired politician,economist,academician and bureaucrat who served as the 13th Prime Minister of India from 2004 to 2014. He is the third longest-serving prime minister after Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi. A member of the Indian National Congress,Singh was the first Sikh prime minister of India. He was also the first prime minister since Jawaharlal Nehru to be re-elected after completing a full five-year term.
Rajiv Pratap Rudy is an Indian politician from the Bharatiya Janata Party,and a Member of Parliament representing Saran in Bihar,India.
Captain Amarinder Singh,is an Indian politician,military historian,former royal and Indian Army veteran who served as the 15th Chief Minister of Punjab. A former Member of the Legislative Assembly,Punjab and Member of Parliament,Lok Sabha,he was also the president of Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee. He has also previously served as the Chief Minister of Punjab from 2002 to 2007 and 2017 to 2021. His father was the last Maharaja of the princely state of Patiala. He has also served in the Indian Army from 1963 to 1966. In 1980,he won a seat in the Lok Sabha for the first time. As of November 2022,Singh also serves as the chairman of the Punjab Urdu Academy. Captain Singh resigned as the Chief Minister of Punjab on 18 September 2021. On 19 September 2022 he merged his party PLC with BJP and joined BJP on the same day.
Bhupinder Singh Hooda is an Indian National Congress politician who is the current Leader of the Opposition in Haryana Legislative Assembly. He also served as the Chief Minister of Haryana from 2005 to 2014.
Virbhadra Singh was an Indian politician who served 6 terms and 21 years as the 4th Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh. A leader of the Indian National Congress party,he was elected 9 times as a Member of Legislative Assembly to the Himachal Pradesh Vidhan Sabha and 5 times as Member of Parliament to the Lok Sabha. Virbhadra Singh was popularly known by the honorific Raja Sahib. Singh holds the distinction of being the longest serving Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh,holding the office from 1983 to 1990,from 1993 to 1998,from 2003 to 2007 and finally from 2012 to 2017,when he was succeeded by the BJP's Jai Ram Thakur. He was elected to the Lok Sabha in 1962,1967,1971,1980 and 2009. Singh served as a Union Minister in the governments of Indira Gandhi and Manmohan Singh. At the time of his demise,he was serving as an MLA from Arki constituency.
Simranjit Singh Mann is a former Indian Police Service officer and a Member of the Parliament in the Lok Sabha,the lower house of the Parliament of India,representing the constituency of Sangrur since 2022. He is the president of the political party Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar). Mann has served three-times as an MP;once from Taran Tarn between 1989 and 1991,and twice from Sangrur between 1999-2004 and since 2022. He is known as a Khalistani supporter and his party is known for their pro-Khalistan stances.
Pawan Kumar Bansal is an Indian National Congress politician,who was appointed as the interim treasurer in November 2020 and a former minister in the Manmohan Singh government. He represented Chandigarh constituency in the 15th Lok Sabha (2009-2014) of India. He served as Minister of Railways from 28 October 2012 to 10 May 2013.
Selja Kumari is an Indian politician and former parliamentarian. A member of the Indian National Congress,she has been the Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment and Tourism in the Government of India during Manmohan Singh's premiership.
Charanjit Singh Atwal is an Indian politician who was Deputy Speaker of the 14th Lok Sabha of India from 2004 to 2009. He represented the Phillaur constituency of Punjab in the 14th Lok Sabha and is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) political party.
Kaka Joginder Singh was a textile owner and perennial candidate who contested and lost over 300 elections in India.
Satya Pal Jain is an Additional Solicitor General of India. He is a Member of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) National Executive Committee. He was elected Member of Parliament from Chandigarh in 1996 and 1998. He is a practising Senior Advocate in the Supreme Court of India and the Punjab and Haryana High Court at Chandigarh.
Surinder Singh Kairon was an Indian politician from Punjab. He was a member of Indian National Congress and represented Taran Taran in 10th Lok Sabha. He was son of ex-chief minister of Punjab,Partap Singh Kairon. He was a member of Punjab Vidhan Sabha before being elected to the Lok Sabha. His son Adesh Partap Singh Kairon is married to Parkash Singh Badal's daughter Preneet Kaur. He died after suffering a massive cardiac arrest in Amritsar on 16 March 2009.
The Panjab Digital Library is a voluntary organization digitizing and preserving the cultural heritage of Panjab since 2003. With over 65 million digitized pages,it is the biggest resource of digital material on Panjab. There are many historically significant documents stored and made available online. Its scope covers Sikh and Punjabi culture. The library funded by The Nanakshahi Trust was launched online in August 2009. Its base office is located at Chandigarh,India.
Vishwa Nath Tiwari (1936–1984) was an Indian author and parliamentarian. He wrote books in Punjabi,English and Hindi. He was nominated as member of the Rajya Sabha in 1982 and served till his death.
Bhan Singh Bhaura was an Indian politician. He was a leader of the Communist Party of India in Punjab. He served as a member of the National Executive of the CPI as well as president for the Bharatiya Khet Mazdoor Union. He was also a Punjab State Executive member of CPI. He was elected to the Lok Sabha in 1971 and 1999 from the Bhatinda seat. He was elected to the Punjab Legislative Assembly twice as well.
Ravneet Singh Bittu is an Indian politician. He previously served as the leader of Indian National Congress in Lok Sabha from 11 March 2021 to 18 July 2021. Bittu was elected to the Lok Sabha,lower house of the Parliament of India from Ludhiana in 2014,2019 Indian general elections and earlier from Anandpur Sahib in 2009. He is the grandson of former Punjab Chief Minister Beant Singh.
Dalvir Singh Khangura is former MLA from Dhuri,Sangrur District,Punjab. He got elected for the seat in the 2017 Punjab Legislative Assembly election. He is a politician in Indian National Congress. Dalvir Singh Khangura,known as "Goldy",was born on 24 September 1982 in a Jat Sikh family in Dhuri,District Sangrur,Punjab India. He has done his schooling from S.V.M.,Dhuri. He later joined S.D. College,Chandigarh and did his Graduation and PGDCA.
Sukhbir Singh Badal is an Indian politician and Sikh rights advocate who served thrice as the Deputy Chief Minister of Punjab and is currently the president of Shiromani Akali Dal,along with being a member of Parliament from the Firozpur Lok Sabha constituency. He is the son of Parkash Singh Badal,who has served five times as the Chief Minister of Punjab. He holds lots of power over the Sikh organizations of the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee and the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee. A businessman at heart,Badal and his family have ownership stakes in an array of businesses- including real estate,transport and other activities to promote Punjab's economic condition on a national level.
Amrit Kaur Tewari was an Indian dental physician and a former Dean of the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER),Chandigarh. She also served as Head,Oral Health Sciences Centre,PGI. She was the daughter of Sardar Tirath Singh Gurum who was the minister in the Erstwhile PEPSU.
Legislative Assembly elections were held in Punjab on 20 February 2022 to elect the 117 members of the 16th Assembly of the Punjab Legislative Assembly. The votes were counted and the results were declared on 10 March 2022.
