Amrinder Singh Raja Warring

Amarinder Singh Brar, (born 29 November 1977)^[1] also known as Amarinder Singh Raja Warring, or Raja Warring is an Indian politician.^[2] He is a Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha and president of Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee.^[3]

Amarinder Singh (Raja Warring)
President of Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee
Incumbent
Assumed office 9 April 2022
Preceded by	Navjot Singh Sidhu
Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
Incumbent
Assumed office 4 June 2024
Preceded by	Ravneet Singh Bittu
Constituency	Ludhiana
Minister of Transport Government of Punjab
In office 20 September 2021 – 11 March 2022
Member of the Punjab Legislative Assembly
In office March 2012 – June 2024
Preceded by	Manpreet Singh Badal
Constituency	Gidderbaha
Personal details
Born	(1977-11-29) 29 November 1977 (age 47)
Political party	Indian National Congress
Spouse	Amrita Singh
Children	2
Residence(s)	Shri mukstar sahib, Punjab

Political career

Warring was the president of the Indian Youth Congress, the youth division of Indian National Congress, from December 2014 to May 2018.^[4]

MLA: first term

Warring was elected as a Member of Legislative Assembly from Gidderbaha from 2012–2017,^[4] district Sri Muktsar Sahib, Punjab to the Punjab Legislative Assembly.^[4][5]

MLA: second term

In March 2017, he was re-elected as an MLA^[4] for the second successive time, after completing his first term from 2012–2017.^[6] He served as the Transport Minister in the Punjab government.^[7]

Warring contested from Bathinda constituency in the 2019 Indian general election against Harsimrat Kaur Badal but lost the elections by over 20,000 votes.^[8]

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".^[7] 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.^[9]

On 9 April 2022, Warring was appointed by the national leadership of Congress as the chief of Congress in Punjab.^[10]

MP: first term

In June, Warring won the 2024 Indian general election from Ludhiana Lok Sabha constituency and was elected as a Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha by defeating his nearest competitor, Ravneet Singh Bittu of the Bharatiya Janata Party by a margin of 20,942 votes.^[11]

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.^[12] He is married to Amrita Singh, and he has a son and a daughter. She is a INC candidate in the upcoming state by-polls.^[13] 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.