Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee Explained

Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee
Native Name:	PPCC
Alliance:	Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance
President:	Amrinder Singh Raja Warring
General Secretary:	Capt. Sandeep Singh Sandhu Yoginder Pal Dhingra
Ideology:	Social democracy Democratic socialism Social liberalism Indian nationalism Composite nationalism Gandhian socialism Secularism Progressivism
Youth:	Punjab Youth Congress
Women:	Punjab Pradesh Mahila Congress Committee
State Seats Name:	Punjab Legislative Assembly
Headquarters:	Sector-15A, Chandigarh-160015
Chairman:	Partap Singh Bajwa

Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee (or Punjab PCC), formerly known as the Punjab Provincial Congress Committee in colonial India, is the affiliate of the Indian National Congress in the state of Punjab. It is responsible for organizing and coordinating the party's activities and campaigns within the state, as well as selecting candidates for local, state, and national elections. On 9 April 2022, Amrinder Singh Raja Warring was appointed by the national leadership of Congress as the chief of Congress in Punjab.^[1] He is a 25th president to hold the post. Present general secretary in-charge of Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee is Harish Chaudhary who was appointed on 22 October 2021

Structure and composition

S.No.	Name	Designation	Incharge
01	Amrinder Singh Raja Warring	President	Punjab Pradesh Congress
02	Bharat Bhushan Ashu	Working President	Punjab Pradesh Congress
03	Inderbir Singh Bolria	Vice President	Punjab Pradesh Congress
04	Kushaldeep Singh Kiki Dhillon	Vice President	Punjab Pradesh Congress
05	Pargat Singh	Vice President	Punjab Pradesh Congress
06	Sunder Sham Arora	Vice President	Punjab Pradesh Congress
07	Sandeep Singh Sandhu	General Secretary	Punjab Pradesh Congress

List of chief ministers of Punjab from Indian National Congress

See main article: List of chief ministers of Punjab (India).

No.	Chief ministers	Portrait	Term in office			Assembly	Constituency
			Start	End	Tenure
1	Gopi Chand Bhargava		15 August 1947	13 April 1949	3 years, 136 days	Interim Assembly
			18 October 1949	20 June 1951
			21 June 1964	6 July 1964		3rd Assembly	MLC
2	Bhim Sen Sachar		13 April 1949	18 October 1949	4 years, 104 days	Interim Assembly
			17 April 1952	22 July 1953		1st Assembly	Ludhiana South Assembly Constituency
			22 July 1953	23 January 1956
3	Partap Singh Kairon		23 January 1956	9 April 1957	8 years, 150 days		Sujanpur
			9 April 1957	11 March 1962		2nd Assembly
			11 March 1962	21 June 1964		3rd Assembly
4	Ram Kishan		7 July 1964	5 July 1966	1 year, 363 days		Jalandhar (North East)
5	Giani Gurmukh Singh Musafir		1 November 1966	8 March 1967	127 days		MLC
6	Giani Zail Singh		17 March 1972	30 April 1977	5 years, 44 days	6th Assembly	Anandpur Sahib
7	Darbara Singh		6 June 1980	6 October 1983	3 years, 122 days	8th Assembly	Nakodar
8	Beant Singh		25 February 1992	31 August 1995	3 years, 187 days	10th Assembly	Jalandhar Cantonment
9	Harcharan Singh Brar		31 August 1995	21 November 1996	1 year, 82 days	9th Assembly	Muktsar
10	Rajinder Kaur Bhattal		21 November 1996	11 February 1997	82 days		Lehra
11	Amarinder Singh		26 February 2002	1 March 2007	5 years, 3 days	12th Assembly	Patiala Urban
			16 March 2017	18 September 2021		15th Punjab Assembly
12	Charanjit Singh Channi		20 September 2021	16 March 2022			Chamkaur Sahib

List of deputy chief ministers of Punjab from Indian National Congress

See main article: List of deputy chief ministers of Punjab, India.

No.	Deputy chief ministers	Portrait	Term in office			Assembly	Constituency	Chief Minister
			Start	End	Tenure
1	Rajinder Kaur Bhattal		6 January 2004	1 March 2007	3 years, 54 days	12th Assembly	Lehra	Amarinder Singh
2	Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa		20 September 2021	16 March 2022		15th Assembly	Dera Baba Nanak	Charanjit Singh Channi
3	Om Parkash Soni						Amritsar Central

List of presidents

S.no	President	Portrait	Term
1.	Saifuddin Kitchlew
2.	Darbara Singh		1957	1964
3.	B. D. Sharma		1964	1966
4.	Santokh Singh Randhawa		?	1985
5.	Rajinder Singh Sparrow		1985	?
(4).	Santokh Singh Randhawa		?	1997
6.	Rajinder Kaur Bhattal		1997	1999
7.	Captain Amarinder Singh		1999	2002
8.	Harvendra Singh Hanspal		2002	2005
9.	Shamsher Singh Dullo		2005	2007
(6).	Rajinder Kaur Bhattal		2007	2008
10.	Mohinder Singh Kaypee		2008	2010
(7).	Captain Amarinder Singh		2010	2013
11.	Pratap Singh Bajwa		2013	2015
(7).	Captain Amarinder Singh		2015	2017
12.	Sunil Kumar Jakhar		2017	2021
13.	Navjot Singh Sidhu		2021	2022
14.	Amrinder Singh Raja Warring		2022	Incumbent

Performance in elections

Pre-Independence

Punjab Legislative Council

Year				Others	Total
	UoP	INC	IND
1920	-	-	71	-	71
1923	33	0	17	21
1926	31	2	12	26
1930	37	0	14	20

Punjab Legislative Assembly

Year						Others	Total
	UoP	INC	SAD	AIML	IND
1937	98	18	11	2	16	30	175
1946	19	51	21	73	11	0

Post-Independence

Years						Others	Total
	INC	SAD	AAP	BJP	IND
1952	96	13	~	~	9	8	126
1957	120	^			13	21	154
1962	90	19			18	27
1967	48	^			9	47	104
1969	38	43			4	17
1972	66	24			3	11
1977	17	58			2	40	117
1980	63	37		1	2	14
1985	32	73		6	4	2
1992	87	3		6	4	20
1997	14	75		18	6	4
2002	62	41		3	9	2
2007	44	49		19	5	0
2012	46	56		12	3	0
2017	77	15	20	3	0	2
2022	18	3	92	2	0	1

• ^ - Party didn't contest election
• ~ - Party didn't exist
• - Green color box indicates the party/parties who formed the government
• - Red color box indicates the official opposition party

See also

• All India Congress Committee
• Pradesh Congress Committee

Notes and References

1. News: Punjab Congress appointments: High command tries to maintain region, experience and caste balance . 12 April 2022 . Tribuneindia News Service . 9 April 2022 . en.