Amarinder Singh,is an Indian politician,military historian,former royal and Indian Army veteran who served as the 15th Chief Minister of Punjab. His father was the last Maharaja of the princely state of Patiala and a member of the historical Phulkian dyansty. Before starting his political career,Singh was an officer in the Indian Army,where he served from 1963 to 1966.
Balram Jakhar was an Indian politician,who served as the Speaker of the Lok Sabha and Governor of Madhya Pradesh. He was also the longest serving Speaker of the Lok Sabha,whose tenure lasted 9 years and 329 days. Jakhar was among the popular faces of Jat politics in Rajasthan during 1980s. He served as the Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare from 1991 to 1996 in Government of India. He was a member of Indian National Congress.
Although India is a parliamentary democracy,the country's politics has become dynastic or with high level of nepotism,possibly due to the absence of party organizations,independent civil-society associations which mobilize support for a party,or centralized financing of elections. The dynastic phenomenon is present at the national,state,regional,and district level. The Nehru–Gandhi family has produced three Indian prime ministers,and family members have largely led the Congress party since 1978. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) also has several dynastic leaders. In addition to the major national parties,other national and regional parties such as Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK),Shiromani Akali Dal,Shiv Sena,Samajwadi Party,Rashtriya Janata Dal,Janata Dal Secular,Jharkhand Mukti Morcha,Kerala Congress,Jammu &Kashmir National Conference,Indian Union Muslim League,AIMIM,and the Nationalist Congress Party are all dominated by families,mostly those of the party founders.
The Punjab Legislative Assembly or the Punjab Vidhan Sabha is the unicameral legislature of the state of Punjab in India. The Sixteenth Punjab Legislative Assembly was constituted in March 2022. At present,it consists of 117 members,directly elected from 117 single-seat constituencies. The tenure of the Legislative Assembly is five years unless dissolved sooner. The Speaker of the sixteenth assembly is Kultar Singh Sandhwan. The meeting place of the Legislative Assembly since 6 March 1961 is the Vidhan Bhavan in Chandigarh.
Preneet Kaur is an Indian politician who served in the Government of India as a Minister of State in the Ministry of External Affairs from 2009 to 2014. She is married to Amarinder Singh,who was the 15th Chief Minister of Punjab. She joined the Congress party,to which her husband also belonged once,and contested parliamentary elections repeatedly from the Patiala constituency. In February 2023,she was suspended from the party for supporting BJP leader and her husband Amarinder Singh and campaigning for candidates of the BJP or BJP-allied parties. She won the elections of 1999,2004 and 2009,but lost her seat in the elections of 2014 and made a comeback by winning again in 2019.
Amarinder Singh Brar,also known as Amarinder Singh Raja Warring,or Raja Warring is an Indian politician. He is a Member of Parliament,Lok Sabha and president of Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee.
Jaiveer Shergill is a practicing lawyer in the Supreme Court of India and a politician. Since December 2022,Shergill has been the national spokesperson of the Bharatiya Janata Party. before that he was in the same position in Congress.
Sukhbir Singh Badal is an Indian politician and businessman who served twice as the Deputy Chief Minister of Punjab and is currently the president of Shiromani Akali Dal,and was 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 is influential over the Sikh organisations of the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee. Badal and his family have ownership stakes in an array of businesses- including real estate,transport and other activities.
Prashant Kishor,colloquially known as PK,is an Indian politician and former political strategist. He worked in public health in a United Nations funded programme for eight years before venturing into Indian politics and working as a political strategist.
Arun Narang is a Bharatiya Janata Party politician from Punjab. From 2017–2022 he represented Abohar Assembly constituency in the Punjab Legislative Assembly. He lost his bid for re-election in the 2022 Punjab Legislative Assembly election.
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.
Rana Gurmit Singh Sodhi is an Indian Politician and a Bharatiya Janata Party Leader in Punjab and a former International Shooter. Sodhi was earlier in Congress Party and has been a Member of the Punjab Legislative Assembly (MLA) from the Guru Har Sahai in Firozpur district of Punjab since 2002.
Arvind Khanna is an Indian politician,businessman,investor and philanthropist. Khanna is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP),which he joined in January 2022. He is a senior leader of the BJP. He is serving as vice-president of BJP Punjab since December 2022 and is a member of BJP Punjab's core committee and finance committee. He served as the member of the legislative assembly (MLA) from Sangrur from 2002 to 2007 and the MLA from Dhuri from 2012 to 2014. From 1998 to 2015,Khanna was a member of the Indian National Congress (INC). During his time in the INC,Khanna served as General Secretary of the Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee (PPCC),PPCC treasurer,President of the Punjab Youth Congress,and a member of the All India Congress Committee.
Sushil Kumar Rinku is an Indian politician and a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party He was a member of parliament from the Jalandhar constituency after winning in 2023 jalandhar by-election but in 2024 he lost to Congress candidate and former Chief minister of Punjab Charanjit Singh Channi. He previously belonged to the Aam Aadmi Party and Indian National Congress. In 2017,he was elected as a member of the Punjab Legislative Assembly from Jalandhar West on Indian National Congress ticket.
On 18 September 2021,several government members of the Punjab Legislative Assembly from Indian National Congress in India attended a Congress Legislative Party (CLP) meeting,which may or may not lead to the change of CM of the Indian National Congress in Punjab.
Punjab Lok Congress was an Indian regional political party,with its base in Punjab. It was founded by Amarinder Singh on 2 November 2021,following a split in Indian National Congress in Punjab,after he resigned as Chief Minister of Punjab and quit the Indian National Congress.
Election for the Sixteenth Legislative Assembly was held in the Indian state of Punjab. Polling was done on 20 February 2022 to elect the 117 members of the Punjab Legislative Assembly. The counting of votes declaration of results was done on 10 March 2022. The Fifteenth Punjab assembly was dissolved on 11 March 2022. The dissolution was necessitated after the results of the election was declared on 10 March. In the Sixteenth Punjab Legislative Assembly,92 members of the ruling Aam Aadmi Party form the treasury benches. The main opposition party in the assembly is Indian National Congress with 18 seats. The other parties which are in opposition are the Shiromani Akali Dal,the Bharatiya Janata Party,the Bahujan Samaj Party and independents. AAP MLA,Kultar Singh Sandhwan was announced as the speaker of the assembly.
Sandeep Jakhar is an Indian politician and a former member of Indian National Congress. He is currently serving as a member of the Punjab Legislative Assembly from Abohar. He defeated BJP Leader Arun Narang from Abohar in 2022 Punjab Assembly Elections. He is the nephew of Punjab BJP Unit President Sunil Jakhar.
Parminder Singh Brar is an Indian politician,sports administrator and lawyer. Brar is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He has been serving as General Secretary of BJP Punjab since 17 September 2023. Brar is noted for his involvement in youth politics in Punjab.
