Amrinder Singh Brar alias Raja Warring, 44, who has been appointed by Congress chief Sonia Gandhi as Punjab Congress Committee (PPCC) president late on Saturday night time, was the transport minister within the occasion’s erstwhile Charanjit Singh Channi-led Punjab authorities. He was amongst 18 successful Congress candidates within the latest Punjab Assembly polls by which the occasion was swept away by the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) wave.
Raja Warring managed to win his Gidderbaha seat within the election for the third consecutive time.
A combative chief, Raja Warring had been the president of the Youth Congress throughout 2014-2018. As the brand new PPCC chief, he replaces cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu, who had resigned shut on the heels of the election outcomes final month after Gandhi requested the Congress unit chiefs of all 5 election-bound states to step down following the occasion’s complete electoral debacle.
Raja Warring is one other Congress chief who started as a pupil politician. He discovered his preliminary political classes from Congress leaders Randeep Surjewala and Jagmeet Brar, who’s now within the Shiromani Akali Dal.
Warring, who had misplaced his dad and mom at an early age, gained praises from the shut aides of prime Congress chief Rahul Gandhi through the 2009 Lok Sabha elections whereas working in Uttar Pradesh.
It helped Raja Warring in getting the occasion ticket from Gidderbaha towards a heavyweight rival like Manpreet Singh Badal, who had then floated his personal outfit, within the 2012 Assembly polls. Former Congress chief minister Capt Amarinder Singh had then wished to provide the occasion ticket to Raghubir Pardhan from Gidderbaha. Not solely Capt Amarinder, his political guru Jagmeet Brar too had not backed Raja Warring through the marketing campaign. But Rahul Gandhi campaigned for him and he managed to beat Manpreet with a major margin.
Raja Warring gained comfortably from Gidderbaha within the 2017 Assembly polls once more. But, regardless of successful the election for the second time in a row, he couldn’t safe a spot within the then Amarinder Singh Cabinet as he was by no means near the latter. Manpreet Badal, who had then joined the Congress, grew to become the finance minister although.
The tussle between Raja Warring and Manpreet might by no means finish. Manpreet additionally had entry to Rahul Gandhi and his sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra. It was humiliating for Raja Warring to stay out of Cabinet regardless of his spectacular begin in Punjab politics by defeating Manpreet. After the Congress management ousted Capt Amarinder and introduced in Channi to exchange him because the CM in September final 12 months, Raja Warring was inducted because the transport minister into the brand new cupboard.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
