Preneet Kaur

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Preneet Kaur
Patiala Urban
Personal details
Born (1944-10-03) 3 October 1944 (age 79)
British India
Political partyBharatiya Janata Party (since 14 March 2024)
Other political
affiliations		Independent (February 2023 - 14 March 2024) Indian National Congress (till February 2023)
Spouse
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(m. 1964)​
ChildrenJai Inder Kaur, Raninder Singh
New Moti Bagh Palace, Patiala
.

Preneet Kaur (born 3 October 1944) is an Indian politician who served in the

elections of 2014 and made a comeback by winning again in 2019
.

Background and personal life

Praneet Kaur was born in

UNO, and one sister, Geetinder Kaur, who is married to the politician and former IPS officer Simranjit Singh Mann.[5] Praneet Kaur attended St. Bede's College, Shimla and graduated from The Convent of Jesus and Mary, Shimla
.

In October 1964, Praneet Kaur was married to

Chief Minister of Punjab
for the second time, and held the position until 18 September 2021.

Praneet Kaur and Amarinder Singh are the parents of two children, a son Raninder Singh (born 1967) and one daughter Jai Inder Kaur (born 1966). Raninder Singh is a politician who has contested elections both to parliament and to the state legislative assembly. He is married to Rishma Kaur, daughter of a businessman, Kuldip Singh Dhingra, owner of Berger Paints India Limited, and his wife Meeta Dhingra. Raninder and Rishma are the parents of three children, a son, Yaduinder Singh (born April 2003) and two daughters namely Seherinder Kaur (b.1996) and Inayatinder Kaur (b.1999). Yaduinder, who is the youngest of Praneet's five grandchildren, is in line to become the titular Maharaja of Patiala in due course.

Praneet's daughter Jai Inder Kaur is married to Sardar Gurpal Singh Sandhu. Incidentally, Gurpal Singh's sister Ishwarpreet Kaur is married to Praneet Kaur's brother, Himmat Singh Kahlon. Gurpal Singh and Jai Inder Kaur are the parents of two sons, Angad and Nirvaan. In March 2015, Angad Singh Sandhu married Aparajita Kumari (they have a daughter, Rudrangini Kaur), princess of Bashahr, youngest daughter of Raja

Chief Minister of Rajasthan. Praneet's family are this deeply embedded in Indian political circles, and especially of the Congress party
.

Political career

Prior to entering politics, Preneet was instrumental in founding Sanjeevani, an institution in

Patiala Lok Sabha constituency. Patiala was the capital of the princely state
formerly ruled by her husband's family.

She won her seat in 1999, but her party lost the election and sat in opposition. After the

Chief Minister of Punjab. During these two terms in the Lok Sabha, Preneet served in various committees, such as those on Food, Civil Supplies and Public Distribution; Women's Empowerment;[9]
Public Undertakings; and Water Resources. She also served on the Consultative Committees attached to the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas.

In 2007, Amarinder demitted office after his party lost the elections to the state assembly. In 2009, after she won the Patiala seat for the third successive term in the elections of 2009, and during the UPA-II government, Praneet was made a Minister of State (MoS) in the Ministry of External Affairs. She was one of two Ministers of State who served under the Cabinet Minister for External Affairs.

In the general elections of 2014, Preneet lost the

Patiala Lok Sabha seat to Dharamvir Gandhi of the Aam Aadmi Party by a margin of 20,942 votes.[10] Preneet's party
was routed at the parliamentary polls and demitted office.

She was one of the 42 INC MLAs who submitted their resignation in protest of a decision of the Supreme Court of India ruling Punjab's termination of the Sutlej-Yamuna Link (SYL) water canal unconstitutional.[11]

Controversy

In 2014, the

BJP-ruled Union Government submitted to the Supreme Court of India a list of names of people who held Swiss
bank accounts. The names were submitted in a sealed cover and not revealed to the public. However, the fact that a former union minister featured in the list became known and was reported by the press. One day before the list was submitted to the court, Preneet issued a statement saying that she had held a Swiss bank account for many years, and that this fact was known to the authorities. The statement also said that in 2011, Preneet had given clarifications to the finance ministry regarding this matter.

References

  1. ^ "Members : Lok Sabha". loksabhaph.nic.in. Retrieved 2 September 2020.
  2. ^ "Detailed Profile – Smt. Preneet Kaur – Members of Parliament (Lok Sabha) – Who's Who – Government: National Portal of India". archive.india.gov.in. Retrieved 11 November 2016.
  3. ^ Bureau, ABP News (3 February 2023). "Congress Suspends Captain Amarinder Singh's Wife And Patiala MP Preneet Kaur From Party". news.abplive.com. Retrieved 3 February 2023.
  4. ^ Waje, Hemant. "Congress suspends Amarinder Singh's wife and Patiala MP Preneet Kaur". Rediff. Retrieved 3 February 2023.
  5. ^ "The Tribune, Chandigarh, India – Punjab". tribuneindia.com. Retrieved 24 May 2022.
  6. ^ "Preneet Kaur profile". Archived from the original on 2 January 2015. Retrieved 4 April 2013.
  7. ISBN 978-81-8475-053-9
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  8. ISBN 978-93-80257-15-0
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  9. ^ https://newsleftandright.com/a-place-to-discriminate-against-daughters/ [dead link]
  10. ^ "Patiala (Punjab) Lok Sabha Election Results 2019 -Patiala Parliamentary Constituency, Winning MP and Party Name". elections.in. Retrieved 24 May 2022.
  11. ^ "SYL verdict: 42 Punjab Congress MLAs submit resignation". 11 November 2016.

External links

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