Pargat Singh

Pargat Singh
Pargat Singh
	Singh taking oath as cabinet minister
Cabinet Minister, Government of Punjab
	In office; 26 September 2021 – 11 March 2022
Governor	Banwarilal Purohit
Chief Minister	Charanjit Singh Channi
Departments	Sports & Youth Affairs; NRI Affairs; Higher Education; School Education;
Preceded by	Rana Gurmit Singh Sodhi (Sports, NRI Affairs) Vijay Inder Singla (School Education) Tripat Rajinder Singh Bajwa (Higher Education)
Member of the Legislative Assembly, Punjab
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 2012
Preceded by	Jagbir Singh Brar
Constituency	Jalandhar Cantt.
Personal details
Born	5 March 1965 (age 59); Mithapur, Jalandhar, Punjab, India
Political party	Indian National Congress; (2017–present)
Other political; affiliations	Awaaz-e-Punjab (2016) Shiromani Akali Dal (–2016);
Height
Field hockey career
Height	180 cm (5 ft 11 in)
Playing position	Defender
Senior career
Years	Team
	Punjab Police
	Rail Coach Factory
	Indian Railways
National team
Years	Team
	India
Medal record
Representing India
Men's field hockey
Asian Games

Pargat Singh (born 5 March 1965) is a hockey player turned politician in India and belongs to the Indian National Congress in Punjab. He is a former Indian hockey player and his playing position was full back. He captained Indian men's hockey team at 1992 Barcelona Olympics and 1996 Atlanta Olympics. He has worked as an SP with Punjab police before taking a plunge into politics.

Champions Trophy

1985 (Perth)

India vs Germany: At one point of time score board was ticking 1–5. Pargat Singh came forward and scored 4 goals in the last 6 minutes. The result was a draw but it made Pargat Singh known.^[1]

1986 (Karachi)

He played against Holland to give India a 3–2 victory.

Olympics

He captained Indian men's hockey team at 1992 Barcelona Olympics and 1996 Atlanta Olympics.^{[citation needed]}

Political career

In 2003, He was vice-president of the Surjit Singh Memorial Hockey Tournament Society of Jalandhar.^[2]

Shiromani Akali Dal

Singh was nominated^[when?] for Jalandhar Cantonment Assembly constituency seat as SAD nominee which he subsequently won defeating Jagbir Singh Brar of Congress.^[3]

He was suspended by SAD in July 2016.^[4]

He along with Navjot Singh Sidhu and Bains brothers formed a new political front - Aawaaz-e-Punjab claiming to fight against those working against Punjab.^[5]

Congress

Singh 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 (SYL) water canal unconstitutional.^[6]

He has been a Congress MLA since 2017 from the Jalandhar Cantt constituency. He has been nominated again by Jalandhar Cantt for elections 2022. He is going to contest the Punjab assembly elections for the third time in a row.^[7] 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.^[8]

In 2017, he was nominated as the General Secretary of Hockey Punjab.^[9]

Awards

S.No.	Awards	Year
1	Padma Shree^[10]	1998
2	Arjuna Award	1989

References

^ "Pargat Singh – ESPNSTAR.com".
^ "Sports Personalities". Archived from the original on 23 October 2014. Retrieved 15 October 2010.
^ "Pargat Singh". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 1 March 2011.
^ "Pargat Singh suspended by SAD". ndtv.com.
^ "Navjot Singh Sidhu forms Aawaaz-e-Punjab". The Times of India. 2 September 2016.
^ "SYL verdict: 42 Punjab Congress MLAs submit resignation". 11 November 2016.
^ "Know Pargat Singh; Contesting Punjab elections for the third time in a row".
^ "AAP's Bhagwant Mann sworn in as Punjab Chief Minister". The Hindu. 16 March 2022. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 22 March 2022.
^ "Hockey Punjab governing body reshuffled | SportzPower".
^ "Padma Awards" (PDF). Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. 2015. Retrieved 21 July 2015.

External links

Pargat Singh at Olympics.com
Pargat Singh at Olympedia
Pargat Singh at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)

Olympic Games
Preceded by Shiny Abraham-Wilson	Flagbearer for India Atlanta 1996	Succeeded by Leander Paes
Political offices
Preceded by	Punjab Cabinet minister for School Education 2021–2022	Succeeded by Gurmeet Singh Meet Hayer
Preceded by	Punjab Cabinet minister for Higher Education and Languages 2021–2022	Succeeded by Gurmeet Singh Meet Hayer
Preceded by	Punjab Cabinet minister for Sports and Youth Services 2021–2022	Succeeded by Gurmeet Singh Meet Hayer
Preceded by	Punjab Cabinet minister for NRI Affairs 2021–2022	Succeeded by Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal

[1] "Pargat Singh – ESPNSTAR.com".

[2] "Sports Personalities". Archived from the original on 23 October 2014. Retrieved 15 October 2010.

[3] "Pargat Singh". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 1 March 2011.

[4] "Pargat Singh suspended by SAD". ndtv.com.

[5] "Navjot Singh Sidhu forms Aawaaz-e-Punjab". The Times of India. 2 September 2016.

[6] "SYL verdict: 42 Punjab Congress MLAs submit resignation". 11 November 2016.

[7] "Know Pargat Singh; Contesting Punjab elections for the third time in a row".

[8] "AAP's Bhagwant Mann sworn in as Punjab Chief Minister". The Hindu. 16 March 2022. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 22 March 2022.

[9] "Hockey Punjab governing body reshuffled | SportzPower".

[Padma_Awards-10] "Padma Awards" (PDF). Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. 2015. Retrieved 21 July 2015.

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v t e Recipients of Padma Shri in Sports
1950s	Balbir Singh Sr. (1957) K. D. Singh (1958) Mihir Sen (1959) Milkha Singh (1959)
1960s	Vijay Hazare (1960) Jasu Patel (1960) Arati Saha (1960) Nari Contractor (1962) Sonam Gyatso (1962) Ramanathan Krishnan (1962) Gostha Pal (1962) Polly Umrigar (1962) Syed Mushtaq Ali (1963) M. J. Gopalan (1964) Nawang Gombu (1964) Charanjit Singh (1964) H. P. S. Ahluwalia (1965) Avtar Singh Cheema (1965) D. B. Deodhar (1965) Phu Dorjee (1965) Wilson Jones (1965) Verghese Kurien (1965) Harish Chandra Singh Rawat (1965) Chandra Prakash Vohra (1965) Sonam Wangyal (1965) Kishan Lal (1966) Narendra Kumar (1965) Shankar Lakshman (1967) Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi (1967) Gurdial Singh (1967) Prithipal Singh (1967) Chandu Borde (1969)
1970s	Bishan Singh Bedi (1970) Moin-ul-Haq (1970) E. A. S. Prasanna (1970) Leslie Claudius (1971) Sailen Manna (1971) Ghaus Mohammad (1971) Chandgi Ram (1971) Kamaljeet Sandhu (1971) Gundappa Viswanath (1971) Harsh Vardhan Bahuguna (1972) B. S. Chandrasekhar (1972) Ajit Wadekar (1972) Farokh Engineer (1973) Pankaj Roy (1975) Roshan Lal Anand (1976) Meena Shah (1977)
1980s	Vasudevan Baskaran (1981) Syed Kirmani (1982) Kapil Dev (1982) Prakash Padukone (1982) Vijay Amritraj (1983) Bahadur Singh Chauhan (1983) Guru Hanuman (1983) Eliza Nelson (1983) Chand Ram (1983) Kaur Singh (1983) Raghubir Singh (1983) Satpal Singh (1983) M. D. Valsamma (1983) Geeta Zutshi (1983) Charles Borromeo (1984) Phu Dorjee (1984) Chuni Goswami (1984) D. K. Khullar (1984) Bachendri Pal (1984) Omprakesh Agrawal (1985) P. T. Usha (1985) Anupama Gokhale (1986) Swaroop Kishen (1986) Geet Sethi (1986) Mohammad Shahid (1986) Bhagyashree Thipsay (1987) Dilip Vengsarkar (1987) Viswanathan Anand (1988) Mohammad Azharuddin (1988)
1990s	Chandraprabha Aitwal (1990) P. K. Banerjee (1990) Premchand Degra (1990) Gulshan Rai (1990) Jaman Lal Sharma (1990) Taranath Narayan Shenoy (1990) Selma D'Silva (1991) Aspy Adajania (1992) Ajit Pal Singh (1992) Sriram Singh (1992) Hakam Singh (1992) Shiny Abraham (1998) Ramesh Krishnan (1998) Lila Ram (1998) Pargat Singh (1998) Karnam Malleswari (1999) Sachin Tendulkar (1999)
2000s	Santosh Yadav (2000) Mahesh Bhupathi (2001) Malathi Krishnamurthy Holla (2001) Bhuvneshwari Kumari (2001) Leander Paes (2001) Dhanraj Pillay (2001) Sunita Rani (2001) Diana Edulji (2002) Jaspal Rana (2002) Mukesh Kumar (2003) Gopal Purushottam Phadke (2003) Kanhaya Lal Pokhriyal (2003) Jyotirmoyee Sikdar (2003) Srinivasaraghavan Venkataraghavan (2003) K. M. Beenamol (2004) Gurmayum Anita Devi (2004) Rahul Dravid (2004) Sourav Ganguly (2004) Anju Bobby George (2004) S. P. Nimbalkar (2004) Dilip Tirkey (2004) Pullela Gopichand (2005) Anil Kumble (2005) Gurbachan Singh Randhawa (2005) Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore (2005) Rachel Thomas (2005) Madhumita Bisht (2006) Mohan Singh Gunjyal (2006) Mary Kom (2006) Sania Mirza (2006) Bahadur Singh Sagoo (2006) Koneru Humpy (2007) Jeev Milkha Singh (2007) Bhaichung Bhutia (2008) Bula Choudhury (2008) Pankaj Advani (2009) MS Dhoni (2009) Balbir Singh Kullar (2009) Harbhajan Singh (2009)
2010s	Ramakant Achrekar (2010) Narain Karthikeyan (2010) Saina Nehwal (2010) Virender Sehwag (2010) Vijender Singh (2010) Ignace Tirkey (2010) Kunjarani Devi (2011) Sushil Kumar (2011) VVS Laxman (2011) Shital Mahajan (2011) Gagan Narang (2011) Krishna Poonia (2011) Harbhajan Singh (mountaineer) (2011) S. M. Arif (2012) Ravi Chaturvedi (2012) Jhulan Goswami (2012) Zafar Iqbal (field hockey) (2012) Devendra Jhajharia (2012) Limba Ram (2012) Prabhakar Vaidya (2012) Premlata Agrawal (2013) Yogeshwar Dutt (2013) Vijay Kumar (2013) Girisha Nagarajegowda (2013) Dingko Singh (2013) Bajrang Lal Takhar (2013) Anjum Chopra (2014) Sunil Dabas (2014) Love Raj Singh Dharmshaktu (2014) Dipika Pallikal (2014) H. Boniface Prabhu (2014) Yuvraj Singh (2014) Mamta Sodha (2014) Saba Anjum Karim (2015) Mithali Raj (2015) P. V. Sindhu (2015) Sardara Singh (2015) Arunima Sinha (2015) Sushil Doshi (2016) Deepika Kumari (2016) Vikas Gowda (2017) Dipa Karmakar (2017) Virat Kohli (2017) Deepa Malik (2017) Sakshi Malik (2017) Shekhar Naik (2017) P. R. Sreejesh (2017) Mariyappan Thangavelu (2017) Saikhom Mirabai Chanu (2018) Somdev Devvarman (2018) Murlikant Petkar (2018) Srikanth Kidambi (2018) Sunil Chhetri (2019) Harika Dronavalli (2019) Gautam Gambhir (2019) Sharath Kamal (2019) Bombayla Devi Laishram (2019) Bajrang Punia (2019) Prashanti Singh (2019) Ajay Thakur (2019)
2020s	Oinam Bembem Devi (2020) M. P. Ganesh (2020) Zaheer Khan (2020) Jitu Rai (2020) Tarundeep Rai (2020) Rani Rampal (2020) Anitha Pauldurai (2021) Anshu Jamsenpa (2021) Mouma Das (2021) Sudha Singh (2021) Virender Singh (2021) K. Y. Venkatesh (2021) Sumit Antil (2022) Pramod Bhagat (2022) Neeraj Chopra (2022) Sankaranarayana Menon (2022) Faisal Ali Dar (2022) Vandana Katariya (2022) Avani Lekhara (2022) Brahmanand Sankhwalkar (2022) S. R. D. Prasad (2023) K. Shanathoiba Sharma (2023) Gurcharan Singh (2023) Joshna Chinappa (2024) Rohan Bopanna (2024) Purnima Mahato (2024) Harbinder Singh (2024) Satendra Singh Lohiya (2024) Gaurav Khanna (2024) Uday Vishwanath Deshpande (2024)