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With the announcement of the name of Charanjit Singh Channi for the post of CM by the Congress party on Sunday evening, it was decided that the chief minister’s chair in Punjab would once again remain in the Malwa region. Coming from the Dalit community, Charanjit Singh Channi is an MLA from Chamkaur Sahib assembly seat in Ropar district. This area comes in East Malwa. After the grant of separate statehood to Haryana on the basis of language on June 12, 1966, the politics of Punjab has been ruled mostly by Malawis. In common parlance, Punjab is divided into three regions- Majha, Malwa and Doaba. Of these, there are 69 assembly seats in Malwa, 23 in Doaba and 25 in Majha.
The rule of the Malawis on the state
The last time the CM’s chair in Punjab went out of Malwa was on 25 February 1992, when Jalandhar Cantonment MLA Beant Singh became the Chief Minister. Beant Singh used to come from Doaba region. After the assassination of Beant Singh in a bomb blast on 31 August 1995, Harcharan Singh Brar of Congress became the CM, who was MLA from Muktsar seat in Malwa. After that the chair of CM never went out of Malwa.
12 people have taken oath as CM 16 times in Punjab
After the formation of a separate state of Haryana in the year 1966 on the basis of language, so far 12 people have been sworn in as Chief Minister 16 times in Punjab. These include Giani Gurmukh Singh, Gurnam Singh, Laxman Singh Gill, Parkash Singh Badal, Giani Zail Singh, Darbara Singh, Surjit Singh Barnala, Beant Singh, Harcharan Singh Brar, Rajinder Kaur Bhattal and Amarinder Singh. Charanjit Singh Channi will be the 13th person who will take oath as the Chief Minister. He will be the 17th CM of Punjab.
President’s rule imposed 6 times in Punjab after 1966
President’s rule has been imposed 6 times in the border state of Punjab after the year 1966. The deteriorating atmosphere and political instability of the state due to terrorism was a major reason for this. For the first time after 1966, President’s rule in Punjab was from 23 August 1968 to 17 February 1969. This was followed by President’s Rule from 14 June 1971 to 17 March 1972, 30 April 1977 to 20 June 1977, 17 February 1980 to 6 June 1980, 6 October 1983 to 29 September 1985 and 11 June 1987 to 25 February 1992. After that, the need for President’s rule was not felt due to political stability and improvement in the atmosphere.
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