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President | Amrinder Singh Raja Warring |
Chairman | Partap Singh Bajwa |
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Headquarters | Sector-15A, Chandigarh-160015 |
Youth wing | Punjab Youth Congress |
Women's wing | Punjab Pradesh Mahila Congress Committee |
Ideology | |
Alliance | Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance |
Seats in Lok Sabha | 7 / 13 |
Seats in Rajya Sabha | 0 / 7 |
Seats in Punjab Legislative Assembly | 16 / 117 |
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Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee (or Punjab PCC), formerly known as the Punjab Provincial Congress Committee in colonial India, is the affiliate of the Indian National Congress in the state of Punjab. It is responsible for organizing and coordinating the party's activities and campaigns within the state, as well as selecting candidates for local, state, and national elections. On 9 April 2022, Amrinder Singh Raja Warring was appointed by the national leadership of Congress as the chief of Congress in Punjab. [1] He is a 25th president to hold the post. Present general secretary in-charge of Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee is Harish Chaudhary who was appointed on 22 October 2021
S.No. | Name | Designation | Incharge |
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01 | Amrinder Singh Raja Warring | President | Punjab Pradesh Congress |
02 | Bharat Bhushan Ashu | Working President | Punjab Pradesh Congress |
03 | Pawan Goel | Working President | Punjab Pradesh Congress |
04 | Kuljit Singh Nagra | Working President | Punjab Pradesh Congress |
05 | Aruna Chaudhary | Vice President | Punjab Pradesh Congress |
06 | Inderbir Singh Bolria | Vice President | Punjab Pradesh Congress |
07 | Kushaldeep Singh Kiki Dhillon | Vice President | Punjab Pradesh Congress |
08 | Pargat Singh | Vice President | Punjab Pradesh Congress |
09 | Sunder Sham Arora | Vice President | Punjab Pradesh Congress |
10 | Sandeep Singh Sandhu | General Secretary | Punjab Pradesh Congress |
No. | Chief ministers | Portrait | Term in office | Assembly | Constituency | ||
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Start | End | Tenure | |||||
1 | Gopi Chand Bhargava | ![]() | 15 August 1947 | 13 April 1949 | 3 years, 136 days | Interim Assembly | |
18 October 1949 | 20 June 1951 | ||||||
21 June 1964 | 6 July 1964 | 3rd Assembly | MLC | ||||
2 | Bhim Sen Sachar | ![]() | 13 April 1949 | 18 October 1949 | 4 years, 104 days | Interim Assembly | |
17 April 1952 | 22 July 1953 | 1st Assembly | Ludhiana South Assembly Constituency | ||||
22 July 1953 | 23 January 1956 | ||||||
3 | Partap Singh Kairon | ![]() | 23 January 1956 | 9 April 1957 | 8 years, 150 days | Sujanpur | |
9 April 1957 | 11 March 1962 | 2nd Assembly | |||||
11 March 1962 | 21 June 1964 | 3rd Assembly | |||||
4 | Ram Kishan | ![]() | 7 July 1964 | 5 July 1966 | 1 year, 363 days | Jalandhar (North East) | |
5 | Giani Gurmukh Singh Musafir | ![]() | 1 November 1966 | 8 March 1967 | 127 days | MLC | |
6 | Giani Zail Singh | ![]() | 17 March 1972 | 30 April 1977 | 5 years, 44 days | 6th Assembly | Anandpur Sahib |
7 | Darbara Singh | ![]() | 6 June 1980 | 6 October 1983 | 3 years, 122 days | 8th Assembly | Nakodar |
8 | Beant Singh | ![]() | 25 February 1992 | 31 August 1995 | 3 years, 187 days | 10th Assembly | Jalandhar Cantonment |
9 | Harcharan Singh Brar | ![]() | 31 August 1995 | 21 November 1996 | 1 year, 82 days | 9th Assembly | Muktsar |
10 | Rajinder Kaur Bhattal | ![]() | 21 November 1996 | 11 February 1997 | 82 days | Lehra | |
11 | Amarinder Singh | ![]() | 26 February 2002 | 1 March 2007 | 5 years, 3 days | 12th Assembly | Patiala Urban |
16 March 2017 | 18 September 2021 | 7 years, 80 days | 15th Punjab Assembly | ||||
12 | Charanjit Singh Channi | ![]() | 20 September 2021 | 16 March 2022 | 2 years, 258 days | Chamkaur Sahib | |
No. | Deputy chief ministers | Portrait | Term in office | Assembly | Constituency | Chief Minister | ||
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Start | End | Tenure | ||||||
1 | Rajinder Kaur Bhattal | ![]() | 6 January 2004 | 1 March 2007 | 3 years, 54 days | 12th Assembly | Lehra | Amarinder Singh |
2 | Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa | 20 September 2021 | 16 March 2022 | 177 days | 15th Assembly | Dera Baba Nanak | Charanjit Singh Channi | |
3 | Om Parkash Soni | Amritsar Central |
Year | President |
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[ citation needed ] | Saifuddin Kitchlew |
1959-1964 | Darbara Singh |
1964-1966 | B. D. Sharma |
1997-1999 | Rajinder Kaur Bhattal |
1999-2002 | Captain Amarinder Singh |
2002-2005 | Harvendra Singh Hanspal |
2010-2013 | Captain Amarinder Singh |
2013-2015 | Pratap Singh Bajwa |
2015-2017 | Captain Amarinder Singh |
2017-2021 | Sunil Kumar Jakhar |
2021-2022 | Navjot Singh Sidhu |
2022–present | Amrinder Singh Raja Warring |
Punjab Legislative Council
Year | Others | Total | |||
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UoP | INC | IND | |||
1920 | - | - | 71 | - | 71 |
1923 | 33 | 0 | 17 | 21 | |
1926 | 31 | 2 | 12 | 26 | |
1930 | 37 | 0 | 14 | 20 |
Punjab Legislative Assembly
Year | Others | Total | |||||
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UoP | INC | SAD | AIML | IND | |||
1937 | 98 | 18 | 11 | 2 | 16 | 30 | 175 |
1946 | 19 | 51 | 21 | 73 | 11 | 0 |
Years | Others | Total | |||||
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INC | SAD | AAP | BJP | IND | |||
1952 | 96 | 13 | ~ | ~ | 9 | 8 | 126 |
1957 | 120 | ^ | 13 | 21 | 154 | ||
1962 | 90 | 19 | 18 | 27 | |||
1967 | 48 | ^ | 9 | 47 | 104 | ||
1969 | 38 | 43 | 4 | 17 | |||
1972 | 66 | 24 | 3 | 11 | |||
1977 | 17 | 58 | 2 | 40 | 117 | ||
1980 | 63 | 37 | 1 | 2 | 14 | ||
1985 | 32 | 73 | 6 | 4 | 2 | ||
1992 | 87 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 20 | ||
1997 | 14 | 75 | 18 | 6 | 4 | ||
2002 | 62 | 41 | 3 | 9 | 2 | ||
2007 | 44 | 49 | 19 | 5 | 0 | ||
2012 | 46 | 56 | 12 | 3 | 0 | ||
2017 | 77 | 15 | 20 | 3 | 0 | 2 | |
2022 | 18 | 3 | 92 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
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