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Chaudhary Surinder Singh
Chaudhary Surinder Singh (born 30 December 1956) is an Indian politician and a member of Indian National Congress. Personal life Surinder Singh was born to Chaudhary Jagjit Singh and Gurbachan Kaur at Dhaliwal, Jalandhar, Punjab. He belongs to one of the biggest political clans of Punjab. His grandfather, Master Gurbanta Singh, father Chaudhary Jagjit Singh and uncle, Santokh Singh Chaudhary are tallest Dalit leaders of INC in state. He did his schooling froSeventh-Day Adventist Sr. Sec. School, Jalandhar Cantt B.A. froD.A.V. College, Jalandharand M.A (history) froPunjab University, Chandigarh He is married to Varinder Kaur, who became sarpanch of Village Dhaliwal. They have two daughters Mrs. Yashwinder who is married to Deep Kamal (DSP) and Miss Navinder who is settled in Canada now. In 2019, Navinder wanted to become the sarpanch of village Dhaliwal and also filled the nomination paper for it but due to her study circumstances she could not participate in sarpanch conte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dhaliwal, Nakodar
Dhaliwal is a small village in Nakodar. Nakodar is a tehsil in the city Jalandhar of Indian state of Punjab Punjab (; Punjabi: پنجاب ; ਪੰਜਾਬ ; ; also romanised as ''Panjāb'' or ''Panj-Āb'') is a geopolitical, cultural, and historical region in South Asia, specifically in the northern part of the Indian subcontinent, comprising a .... STD code Dhaliwal's STD code is 01821 and post code is 144033. References Villages in Jalandhar district Villages in Nakodar tehsil {{Jalandhar-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indian National Congress
The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party but often simply the Congress, is a political party in India with widespread roots. Founded in 1885, it was the first modern nationalist movement to emerge in the British Empire in Asia and Africa. From the late 19th century, and especially after 1920, under the leadership of Mahatma Gandhi, the Congress became the principal leader of the Indian independence movement. The Congress led India to independence from the United Kingdom, and significantly influenced other anti-colonial nationalist movements in the British Empire. Congress is one of the two major political parties in India, along with its main rival the Bharatiya Janata Party. It is a "big tent" party whose platform is generally considered to lie in the centre to of Indian politics. After Indian independence in 1947, Congress emerged as a catch-all and secular party, dominating Indian politics for the next 20 years. The party's first prime minister ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1956 Births
Events January * January 1 – The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Anglo-Egyptian Condominium ends in Sudan. * January 8 – Operation Auca: Five U.S. evangelical Christian Missionary, missionaries, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, Ed McCully, Jim Elliot and Pete Fleming, are killed for trespassing by the Huaorani people of Ecuador, shortly after making contact with them. * January 16 – Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser vows to reconquer Palestine (region), Palestine. * January 25–January 26, 26 – Finnish troops reoccupy Porkkala, after Soviet Union, Soviet troops vacate its military base. Civilians can return February 4. * January 26 – The 1956 Winter Olympics open in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy. February * February 11 – British Espionage, spies Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean (spy), Donald Maclean resurface in the Soviet Union, after being missing for 5 years. * February 14–February 25, 25 – The 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union is held in Mosc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canada
Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by total area. Its southern and western border with the United States, stretching , is the world's longest binational land border. Canada's capital is Ottawa, and its three largest metropolitan areas are Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver. Indigenous peoples have continuously inhabited what is now Canada for thousands of years. Beginning in the 16th century, British and French expeditions explored and later settled along the Atlantic coast. As a consequence of various armed conflicts, France ceded nearly all of its colonies in North America in 1763. In 1867, with the union of three British North American colonies through Confederation, Canada was formed as a federal dominion of four provinces. This began an accretion of provinces an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santokh Singh Chaudhary
Santokh Singh Chaudhary (born 18 June, 1946) is an Indian politician who is a former Cabinet Minister of Punjab and a member of parliament from Jalandhar (Lok Sabha constituency). He won the 2014 Indian general election and 2019 Indian general election being an Indian National Congress The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party but often simply the Congress, is a political party in India with widespread roots. Founded in 1885, it was the first modern nationalist movement to emerge in the British Em ... candidate. References India MPs 2014–2019 Living people Lok Sabha members from Punjab, India People from Jalandhar district Indian National Congress politicians 1946 births India MPs 2019–present {{INC-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Master Gurbanta Singh
Master Gurbanta Singh (4 August 1904 – 5 February 1980) was an Indian politician, educationist and social reformer from Punjab, India. He was a former member of the Unionist Party and then Indian National Congress. Master Gurbanta Singh was one of the tallest Dalit leaders of Punjab. Early life Master Gurbanta Singh was born in Dhaliwal village, Jullundur, Punjab, in British India. He completed his education at Jalandhar and became a school teacher at Sain Dass A.S Senior Secondary School (Jalandhar). His political career started when he became village sarpanch. After the influence of the Ad Dharm movement, he declared himself Ad Dharmi in the 1931 census along with other Dalits of Punjab, especially in Doaba. Ad-Dharm Movement In the mid-1920s, Gurbanta Singh came into contact with Mangu Ram Mugowalia, a fellow caste man and also a founder member of the Ghadar Party. Mangu Ram had started the Ad-Dharm movement and established many mandals in the Doaba region of Pu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jagjit Singh (politician)
Chaudhary Jagjit Singh was an Indian politician and member of Punjab Legislative Assembly. Early life Chaudhary Jagjit Singh was born to Master Gurbanta Singh and Sampuran Kaur at Dhaliwal, Jalandhar, Punjab. After the death of his father he became his official political heir. Jagjit's younger brother, Santokh Singh Chaudhary is also a big leader and son Chaudhary Surinder Singh is a MLA from Kartarpur. Politics His political career started as a Sarpanch of their ancestral village '''Dhariwal Kadian and then appointed Chairman of Jalandhar Zila Parshad. He also held posts of Chairman of Block Samiti, Managing Director of Cooperative Bank and Chairman of Market Committee. He also remained the Cabinet Minister of Punjab for Labour and Employment and also Minister of State for Housing and Urban Development. He won the Punjab Assembly election five times continuously from Kartarpur Assembly Constituency in 1980, 1985, 1992, 1997 and 2002 File:2002 Events Collage.png, From ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Incumbent
The incumbent is the current holder of an official, office or position, usually in relation to an election. In an election for president, the incumbent is the person holding or acting in the office of president before the election, whether seeking re-election or not. In some situations, there may not be an incumbent at time of an election for that office or position (ex; when a new electoral division is created), in which case the office or position is regarded as vacant or open. In the United States, an election without an incumbent is referred to as an open seat or open contest. Etymology The word "incumbent" is derived from the Latin verb ''incumbere'', literally meaning "to lean or lay upon" with the present participle stem ''incumbent-'', "leaning a variant of ''encumber,''''OED'' (1989), p. 834 while encumber is derived from the root ''cumber'', most appropriately defined: "To occupy obstructively or inconveniently; to block fill up with what hinders freedom of motion or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jalandhar District
Jalandhar district is a district in Doaba region of the state of Punjab, India. District headquarters is Jalandhar city. Before the Partition of India, Jalandhar was also the headquarters of the Jalandhar Division, with constituent districts Jalandhar, Hoshiarpur, Ludhiana, Ferozepur and Kangra. The entire Jalandhar Division was awarded to India when Punjab was partitioned. History Classical Jalandhar was the site of the Katoch Rajput kingdom of Jalandhara, also known as Trigartta. The date of its founding is unclear, but its presence is observed by the Chinese pilgrim Xuanzang in the seventh century, and Kalhana records the defeat of Prithvi Chandra Raja of Trigartta by Sankara Varmma of Kashmir towards the end of the ninth century.Government of Punjab, Punjab District Gazetteers, Volume XIV A. Jullundur District, with maps, 1904, Lahore, Civil and Military Gazette Press, 1908 Medieval Jalandhar became part of the Persianate Ghaznavid Empire during the reign of Ibrahim Shah ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarwan Singh Phillaur Sarwan Singh Phillaur is an Indian politician. He was Minister for Jails, Tourism, Cultural Affairs and Printing and Stationery in the present Punjab Government. |
