Amrinder Singh Raja Warring

Amrinder Singh Brar, (born 29 November 1977)[1] popularly known as Amrinder Singh Raja Warring,[1] is an Indian politician and MLA who served as Transport Minister[2] of the state of Punjab, India under the Government of Charanjit Singh Channi. He was awarded the title of "Raja Warring" by Congress circles.

Amrinder Singh (Raja Warring)
President of Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee
Assumed office
9 April 2022
Preceded byNavjot Singh Sidhu
Minister of Transport
Government of Punjab
In office
20 September 2021 – 11 March 2022
Member of the Punjab Legislative Assembly
Assumed office
March 2012
Preceded byManpreet Singh Badal
ConstituencyGidderbaha
Personal details
Born (1977-11-29) 29 November 1977
Political partyIndian National Congress
SpouseAmrita Warring
Children2
Residence(s)Sri Muktsar Sahib, Punjab

Political career

Warring was also president of the Indian Youth Congress, the youth division of Indian National Congress, from December 2014 to May 2018.[3]

MLA Gidderbaha

An elected Member of Legislative Assembly from Gidderbaha,[3] district Sri Muktsar Sahib, Punjab to the Punjab Legislative Assembly.[3]

MLA second term

In March 2017, he was elected as an MLA[3] for the second successive time, after completing his first term from 2012–2017.[4] He served as the Transport Minister in the Punjab government.[5]

Warring contested from Bathinda constituency in the 2019 Indian general election against Harsimrat Kaur Badal but lost by a large margin due to his statement supporting Jagdish Tytler's "heroics" in the 1984 Anti-Sikh Riots.[6]

MLA third term

During the campaign for the 2022 Punjab Legislative Assembly election, Warring sang songs and danced during his public meetings. His associates said this was done "to strike a chord with commoners".[5] He won the election. The Aam Aadmi Party gained a strong 79% majority in the sixteenth Punjab Legislative Assembly by winning 92 out of 117 seats in the 2022 Punjab Legislative Assembly election. MP Bhagwant Mann was sworn in as Chief Minister on 16 March 2022.[7]

In March 2022, when CM designate Bhagwant Mann took steps to end the VIP culture and ordered to withdraw police security from 122 former MLAs and ministers. A total of 384 policemen of the state, involved in the security of those politicians were transferred to their parent unit. Mann had stated that the police force was needed for security of the people and not VIPs. As ordered, 21 security personnel, the largest in the list were withdrawn from the service of Warring.[8][9] On 9 April 2022, Warring was appointed by the national leadership of Congress as the chief of Congress in Punjab.[10]

Family

Born to Kuldeep Singh and Malkeet Kaur, he lost his parents when he was still a child, and was brought up by his maternal uncles, later brought up by Sindhwani Family.[11] He is married to Amrita J. Singh, and he has a son and a daughter.[12] He was earlier known as Raja Sotha, with Sotha being the name of his maternal village. Later, he began using the name of his paternal village called Warring.

References
  1. "Know Your PAN". incometaxindiaefiling.gov.in. Income Tax Department, Ministry of Finance, Government of India. Archived from the original on 20 March 2017. Retrieved 19 March 2017.
  2. "Punjab portfolios: CM Channi keeps vigilance, mining, power; deputy Randhawa gets home, Soni health". Hindustan Times. 28 September 2021.
  3. Dhaliwal, Shub Karman. "Punjab Elections Results 2017: Panjab University alumni script success story, win Assembly poll". The Indian Express. Retrieved 19 March 2017.
  4. Kamali, Neel (18 August 2016). "Sukhbir's bid to regain Gidderbaha back for SAD". The Times of India. TNN. Retrieved 19 March 2017.
  5. "In Muktsar, novel ways to reach out to voters". Tribuneindia News Service. Retrieved 14 March 2022.
  6. "SAD's Harsimrat Kaur Badal wins from Bathinda Lok Sabha seat". India Today. 24 May 2019. Retrieved 9 February 2020.
  7. "AAP's Bhagwant Mann sworn in as Punjab Chief Minister". The Hindu. 16 March 2022. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 22 March 2022.
  8. "AAP's Bhagwant Mann withdraws security for VIPs, stakes claim". The Asian Age. 13 March 2022. Retrieved 13 March 2022.
  9. "AAP Effect: 122 Punjab VVIPs lose personal security". The Statesman. 12 March 2022. Retrieved 16 March 2022.
  10. "Punjab Congress appointments: High command tries to maintain region, experience and caste balance". Tribuneindia News Service. 9 April 2022. Retrieved 12 April 2022.
  11. Service, Tribune News. "Slip of the tongue". Tribuneindia News Service. Retrieved 9 February 2020.
  12. "Members". punjabassembly.nic.in. Retrieved 9 February 2020.
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