| Name(s) |
PRATAP SINGH KAIRON |
| Date of
Birth |
October 01, 1901
– Village Kairon, Amritsar, Punjab, India. |
| Date of
Death |
February 06, 1965
– He was assassinated by Sucha Singh Bassi, in his car on the
main highway (the G.T. Road in front of village RASOI) from
Delhi to Amritsar. Sucha Singh Bassi was later hanged. |
|
Identity |
Indian Politician
from Punjab |
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Date-wise Events / Works |
- 1932: He was jailed for
five years for participating in civil disobedience movement.
- April 13, 1932: He started an
English language weekly paper called The New Era
in Amritsar.
- 1942: He was jailed again
for participating in the Quit India Movement.
- 1941 to 1946: He was the General
Secretary of the Punjab Provincial Congress Committee.
- 1946: He was elected to the
Constituent Assembly.
- January 21, 1956: He became the
Chief Minister of Punjab Province.
- June 23, 1964: He
retired as the Chief Minister of Punjab Province, pursuant
to certain allegations against him by his political
adversaries.
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Other Events &
Developments |
- He was the Chief Minister of the Punjab province (then
comprising Punjab, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh).
- He is widely acknowledged as the architect of
post-Independence Punjab Province (or Punjab, Haryana and
Himachal as of today).
- His father, Nihal Singh Kairon, was a pioneer in
initiating women's education in the province.
- He also was an active Indian independence movement
leader.
- He was influenced by farming methods practised in the
U.S.A and hoped to replicate the same in India.
- He joined politics and the newspaper was eventually shut
down.
- He was first a member of the Shiromani Akali Dal, and
later of the Indian National Congress.
- As Minister for Rehabilitation in the days immediately
after the Partition of India, Kairon handled the task of
resettlement of millions of refugees who had migrated from
West Punjab.
- Over three million people were re-established in East
Punjab in new homes and often in new professions, in a very
short period of time.
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