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2011:
- Capt Amarinder welcomes Jan 30 elections; festive mood among Congress workers
- Capt Amarinder Singh writes to Sonia to expand PPCC
- Resentment brews in NRIs over many prominent leaders missing from PPCC list
- Amarinder`s loyalists dominate Punjab Congress Committee office bearers list ......READ

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- 2011: President of Punjab PCC
- Chief Minister of Punjab: 2002-2007and 1999 to 2002
BIO:
- born March 11, 1942
- resident at
New Moti Bagh Palace, Patiala.
- Commissioned in the Indian Army in 1963 and resigned in early 1965. Rejoined and took part in the actual operations of 1966 Pakistan War
- 1980: Elected MP on CONGRESS PARTY TICKET
- 1984: resigned from Parliament and from Congress as a protest against the Army entry in Darbar Sahib
- Joined Akalidal, elected MLA and became a minister in the state government for Agriculture, Forest, Development and Panchayats
- Formed a splinter group named Shiromani Akali Dal (Panthic) which later merged with the Congress.
- Served as President of Punjab Congress
- 2009: Elected the chairman of Punjab Congress Committee for the second time
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