The Panthic Party
( pa, ਪੰਥਕ ਪਾਰਟੀ) was a political party in India in the 1940s that focused on the
Sikhs.
Sardar Swaran Singh
Sardar Swaran Singh (19 August 1907 – 30 October 1994) was an Indian politician. He was India's longest-serving union cabinet minister.
Early life
Swaran Singh Purewal was born on 19 August 1907 in Shankar (village) in Jalandhar distric ...
and
Baldev Singh
Baldev Singh ( pa, ਬਲਦੇਵ ਸਿੰਘ, hi, बलदेव सिंह) (11 July 1902 – 29 June 1961) was an Indian Sikh political leader, he was an Indian independence movement leader and the first Defence Minister of India. Mor ...
were prominent members of this party, both of which later joined
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 E ...
and rose to the status of cabinet minister in the Union Government of
India
India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...
.
References
Defunct political parties in India
Sikh political parties
Political parties established in the 1940s
1940s establishments in India
Political parties with year of disestablishment missing
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