25 Facts About Preneet Kaur

Preneet Kaur was born on 3 October 1944 and is an Indian politician who served in the Government of India as a Minister of State in the Ministry of External Affairs from 2009 to 2014.

Preneet Kaur is married to Amarinder Singh, who was the 15th Chief Minister of Punjab.

Preneet Kaur joined the Congress party, to which her husband belonged once, and contested parliamentary elections repeatedly from the Patiala constituency.

Preneet Kaur won the elections of 1999,2004 and 2009, but lost her seat in the elections of 2014 and made a comeback by winning again in 2019, only to lose again in 2024, finishing in third place.

Praneet Kaur was born in Shimla, India into a Kahlon Jat Sikh family.

Preneet Kaur is the daughter of Sardar Gian Singh Kahlon, an officer in the Indian Civil Service, and Satinder Kaur.

Preneet Kaur served in many senior positions, including as Chief Secretary of Punjab in the 1960s.

Preneet Kaur has one brother, Himmat Singh Kahlon, who works for the UNO, and one sister, Geetinder Kaur, who is married to the politician and former IPS officer Simranjit Singh Mann.

Praneet Preneet Kaur attended St Bede's College, Shimla and graduated from The Convent of Jesus and Mary, Shimla.

Preneet Kaur's husband was the son and heir of the titular Maharaja of Patiala, formerly the ruler of the largest princely state in Punjab.

Amarinder Singh, who was serving as an officer in the Indian Army at the time of the wedding, succeeded his father as titular Maharaja of Patiala in 1974, whereupon Praneet Preneet Kaur became the titular Maharani of Patiala.

Preneet Kaur was elected to parliament from the Patiala constituency in 1980, and to the Punjab state legislative assembly in 1985,1992 and 2002, serving as minister in the state government for many years.

Preneet Kaur is married to Rishma Kaur, daughter of a businessman, Kuldip Singh Dhingra, owner of Berger Paints India Limited, and his wife Meeta Dhingra.

Praneet's daughter Jai Inder Preneet Kaur is married to Sardar Gurpal Singh Sandhu.

Incidentally, Gurpal Singh's sister Ishwarpreet Preneet Kaur is married to Praneet Preneet Kaur's brother, Himmat Singh Kahlon.

Gurpal Singh and Jai Inder Preneet Kaur are the parents of two sons, Angad and Nirvaan.

Preneet Kaur started her political career by contesting the General elections of 1999 from the Patiala Lok Sabha constituency.

Preneet Kaur won her seat in 1999, but her party lost the election and sat in opposition.

Preneet Kaur remained a back-bencher in Parliament, living mostly in Chandigarh where her husband was at this time Chief Minister of Punjab.

Preneet Kaur served on the Consultative Committees attached to the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas.

Preneet Kaur was one of two Ministers of State who served under the Cabinet Minister for External Affairs.

Preneet Kaur's party was routed at the parliamentary polls and demitted office.

Preneet Kaur was one of the 42 INC MLAs who submitted their resignation in protest of a decision of the Supreme Court of India ruling Punjab's termination of the Sutlej-Yamuna Link water canal unconstitutional.

One day before the list was submitted to the court, Preneet Kaur issued a statement saying that she had held a Swiss bank account for many years, and that this fact was known to the authorities.

The statement said that in 2011, Preneet Kaur had given clarifications to the finance ministry regarding this matter.