Famous Punjabi Politicians – Famouspunjabi.com
Captain Amarinder Singh is the son of Yadavindra Singh and Mohinder Kaur, former Maharaja of Patiala. The house of Patiala belongs to the Phulkian dynasty. He attended the Welham Boys’ School and Lawrence School Sanawar and The Doon School, Dehradun. His children include Yuvraj Raninder Singh and Jai Inder Kaur. His wife Preneet Kaur, is an MP serving as Minister of State in the External Affairs Ministry. He served as a captain in Indian Army….
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Parkash Singh Badal was born on December 8, 1927 in Abul Khurana, near Malout. He belongs to a Jat family of Dhillon clan. His father’s name is Raghuraj Singh and mother’s name Sundri Kaur. He started his political career in 1947. He was Sarpanch of the village Badal and later Chairman of Block Samiti, Lambi before rising into Punjab politics. He was elected to Punjab Vidhan Sabha in 1957 for the first time. He was…
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Montek Singh Ahluwalia was born in Rawalpindi, now in Pakistan, in 1943. He studied at St. Patrick’s High School, Secunderabad and Delhi Public School, Mathura Road. He graduated with a B.A. (Hons) degree from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi, University of Delhi. He was a Rhodes scholar at the University of Oxford where he studied at Magdalen College, as an undergraduate obtaining a BA in Philosophy Politics and Economics. Montek Singh Ahluwalia then joined St Antony’s…
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