Pratap Singh Kairon (1901-1965) was the Chief Minister of the Punjab province (then comprising of Punjab, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh) , and is widely acknowledged to be the architect of post-Independence Punjab. Punjab   (Punjabi: , Hindi: , IPA: ) (Also spelled Panjab) is a state in northwest India. ... Haryana (Hindi: , IPA: / /) is a state in north India. ... Himachal Pradesh   (Hindi: हिमाचल प्रदेश, IPA: ), formerly the Punjab Hill States, is a mostly mountainous state in northern India. ...

Early life

Pratap was born on October 1, 1901, into a Dhillon Jat family of the village of Kairon in the Amritsar district, province of Punjab during the British Raj. His father, Nihal Singh was a pioneer in initiating women's education in the province. Pratap studied at the Khalsa College, Amritsar and then went to the U.S., where he supported himself with work on farms and factories. He did his Masters in political science from the University of Michigan. He was influenced by farming methods practised in the U.S.A and hoped to replicate the same in India later. October 1 is the 274th day of the year (275th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1901 (MCMI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article may require cleanup. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Amritsar District is one of 19 districts in the state of Punjab in North West India. ... Punjab was a province of British India. ... The British Empire at its zenith in 1919. ... United States is the current Good Article Collaboration of the week! Please help to improve this article to the highest of standards. ... UM also has campuses in Dearborn and Flint. ...

Political Career

Entry into politics

Kairon returned to India in 1929. On April 13, 1932 he started an English weekly paper The Ncw Era in Amritsar. He joined politics and the newspaper eventually shut down. He was at first, a member of the Shiromani Akali Dal and later of the Indian National Congress. He was jailed in 1932 for five years for participating in the Civil Disobedience Movement. He entered the Punjab Legislative Assembly as an Akali nominee in 1937, defeating the Congress candidate, Baba Gurdit Singh of Sarhali. Akali Dal, also termed as Shiromani Akali Dal (Akali Religious Party), is a Sikh political party mainly based in Punjab, India. ... Indian National Congress (also known as the Congress Party or Congress (I), abbreviated INC) is a major political party in India. ...

From 1941 to 1946, he was the general secretary of the Punjab Provincial Congress Committee . He was jailed again in the 1942 Quit India Movement and was elected to the Constituent Assembly in 1946.

In power

After Independence in 1947, Pratap Singh Kairon held various offices in the elected state government including Rehabilitation Minister, Development Minister(1947-1949) and Chief Minister(1952-1964).

Minister for Rehabilition

As Minister for Rehabilitation in the days immediately after the Partition, Kairon ended the chaos and confusion and handled the tough 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. Look up partition in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The Punjab/ پنجاب province of Pakistan is part of the larger Punjab region. ...

Chief Minister

Pratap Singh Kairon was a man of vision. He laid the base on which Punjab prospered. In his role in implementing land reforms, the late leader established the Punjab Agricultural University, which played a key role in the Green Revolution. He also placed Punjab on the industrial map of the country. He was behind the creation of the city of Chandigarh and the industrial township of Faridabad(in present-day Haryana). Kairon made primary and middle school education free and compulsory. He opened three engineering colleges and a polytechnic in each district. He was responsible for establishing much of the state's basic infrastructure in terms of irrigation, electrification and roads. Punjab was the first state in the Indian Union to have all its villages electrified. Please wikify (format) this article as suggested in the Guide to layout and the Manual of Style. ... The term Green Revolution is used to describe the transformation of agriculture in many developing nations that led to significant increases in cereal production between the 1940s and 1960s. ... Chandigarh (Punjabi: , Hindi: ) also called The City Beautiful, is a city in India that serves as the capital of two states: Punjab and Haryana. ... This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ... The Republic of India is a large country in South Asia, and one of only two countries in the world with a population of over one billion. ...

He ushered huge prosperity for Punjab. His successors have largely frittered away the development he brought about.

Demise

In 1964, following the publication of the report of the commission of enquiry which had exonerated him of the bulk of the allegations made against him by his political adversaries, Partap Singh Kairon resigned from his position as chief minister of the Punjab. On February 6, 1965, he was assassinated by Sucha Singh, who was later hanged, in his car on the main highway (the G.T. Road) from Delhi to Amritsar. The Grand Trunk Road (abbreviated to GT Road in common usage) is one of South Asias oldest and longest major roads. ... This article is about the metropolis of Delhi. ...

Reference

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