{"id":693,"date":"2023-01-09T06:28:03","date_gmt":"2023-01-09T06:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nallunews.com\/?page_id=693"},"modified":"2023-01-09T06:28:05","modified_gmt":"2023-01-09T06:28:05","slug":"punjab","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.nallunews.com\/?page_id=693","title":{"rendered":"Punjab"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button has-custom-font-size\" style=\"font-size:10px\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nallunews.com\/?page_id=181\" style=\"border-radius:0px;background-color:#e11212\">Back<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Politics in\u00a0reorganised present-day\u00a0Punjab is dominated by mainly three parties \u2013\u00a0Indian National Congress,\u00a0Aam Aadmi Party\u00a0and\u00a0Shiromani Akali Dal (Badal).Since 1967,\u00a0Chief Minister of Punjab\u00a0has been predominantly from\u00a0Jatt Sikh\u00a0community despite its 21 percent state population.Exceptions are Giani\u00a0Zail Singh, the Chief Minister of Punjab from 17 March 1972 to 30 April 1977 belonging to Ramgarhia community that has population of 6 percent and is a part of significant\u00a0OBC community\u00a0having population of 31.3 percent in the state and\u00a0Charanjit Singh Channi\u00a0who held the position for 111 days from 20 September 2021 to 16 March 2022 and was from\u00a0Scheduled Caste(Dalit)\u00a0who have 32 percent population in the state.Other prominent party is\u00a0Bahujan Samaj Party\u00a0especially in\u00a0Doaba region\u00a0founded by\u00a0Kanshi Ram\u00a0of\u00a0Rupnagar district.In 1992\u00a0BSP\u00a0won 9 seats\u00a0Vidhan Sabha elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politics in\u00a0reorganised present-day\u00a0Punjab is dominated by mainly three parties \u2013\u00a0Indian National Congress,\u00a0Aam Aadmi Party\u00a0and\u00a0Shiromani Akali Dal (Badal).Since 1967,\u00a0Chief Minister of Punjab\u00a0has been predominantly from\u00a0Jatt Sikh\u00a0community despite its 21 percent state population.Exceptions are Giani\u00a0Zail Singh, the Chief Minister of Punjab from 17 March 1972 to 30 April 1977 belonging to Ramgarhia community that has population of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-693","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nallunews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nallunews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nallunews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nallunews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nallunews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nallunews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":694,"href":"https:\/\/www.nallunews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/693\/revisions\/694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nallunews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}