Pargat Singh

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Pargat Singh
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Singh taking oath as cabinet minister
Cabinet Minister, Government of Punjab
In office
26 September 2021 –11 March 2022
Field hockey career
Height 180 cm (5 ft 11 in)
Playing position Defender
Senior career
YearsTeam
Punjab Police
Rail Coach Factory
Indian Railways
National team
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
India
Medal record
Representing Flag of India.svg  India
Men's field hockey
Asian Games
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 1986 Seoul Team
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 1990 Beijing Team

Pargat Singh (born 5 March 1965) is a hockey player turned politician in India and belongs to the Indian National Congress in Punjab. He is a former Indian hockey player and his playing position was full back. He captained Indian men's hockey team at 1992 Barcelona Olympics and 1996 Atlanta Olympics. He has worked as an SP with Punjab police before taking a plunge into politics.

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Champions Trophy

1985 (Perth)

India vs Germany: At one point of time score board was ticking 1–5. Pargat Singh came forward and scored 4 goals in the last 6 minutes. The result was a draw but it made Pargat Singh known. [1]

1986 (Karachi)

He played against Holland to give India a 3–2 victory.

Olympics

He captained Indian men's hockey team at 1992 Barcelona Olympics and 1996 Atlanta Olympics.[ citation needed ]

Political career

In 2003, He was vice-president of the Surjit Singh Memorial Hockey Tournament Society of Jalandhar. [2]

Shiromani Akali Dal

Singh was nominated[ when? ] for Jalandhar Cantonment Assembly constituency seat as SAD nominee which he subsequently won defeating Jagbir Singh Brar of Congress. [3]

He was suspended by SAD in July 2016. [4]

He along with Navjot Singh Sidhu and Bains brothers formed a new political front - Aawaaz-e-Punjab claiming to fight against those working against Punjab. [5]

Congress

Singh was one of the 42 INC MLAs who submitted their resignation in protest of a decision of the Supreme Court of India ruling Punjab's termination of the Sutlej-Yamuna Link (SYL) water canal unconstitutional. [6]

He has been a Congress MLA since 2017 from the Jalandhar Cantt constituency. He has been nominated again by Jalandhar Cantt for elections 2022. He is going to contest the Punjab assembly elections for the third time in a row. [7] The Aam Aadmi Party gained a strong 79% majority in the sixteenth Punjab Legislative Assembly by winning 92 out of 117 seats in the 2022 Punjab Legislative Assembly election. MP Bhagwant Mann was sworn in as Chief Minister on 16 March 2022. [8]

In 2017, he was nominated as the General Secretary of Hockey Punjab. [9]

Awards

S.No.AwardsYear
1 Padma Shree [10] 1998
2 Arjuna Award 1989

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References

  1. ↑ "Pargat Singh – ESPNSTAR.com".
  2. ↑ "Sports Personalities". Archived from the original on 23 October 2014. Retrieved 15 October 2010.
  3. ↑ "Pargat Singh". The Times of India . Archived from the original on 1 March 2011.
  4. ↑ "Pargat Singh suspended by SAD". ndtv.com.
  5. ↑ "Navjot Singh Sidhu forms Aawaaz-e-Punjab". The Times of India. 2 September 2016.
  6. ↑ "SYL verdict: 42 Punjab Congress MLAs submit resignation". 11 November 2016.
  7. ↑ "Know Pargat Singh; Contesting Punjab elections for the third time in a row".
  8. ↑ "AAP's Bhagwant Mann sworn in as Punjab Chief Minister". The Hindu. 16 March 2022. ISSN   0971-751X . Retrieved 22 March 2022.
  9. ↑ "Hockey Punjab governing body reshuffled | SportzPower".
  10. ↑ "Padma Awards" (PDF). Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. 2015. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
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