Captain Amarinder Singh

Some Lesser Known Facts About Captain Amarinder Singh

• Does Captain Amarinder Singh drink alcohol?: Yes 

• He was born to Yadavindra Singh & Maharani Mohinder Kaur of Patiala.

• He was very passionate about joining the army from his school days.

• After graduating from NDA and IMA, he joined the Indian Army (commissioned as a Captain) in June 1963. 

• When he was in the Indian Army along with his brother, his father was the then Ambassador to Rome, and his mother was in the Lok Sabha.

• He resigned from the Indian Army in August 1965, citing his services were needed at home.

• He rejoined the Indian Army after the start of the Indo-Pak War in 1965.

• When Lt Gen Harbaksh Singh (GOC-IN-C of the western command) asked Amarinder to join him, he felt honored and joined him as his ADC.

• In the 1965 Indo-Pakistan War, he served as the captain in the Indian Army.

• Rajiv Gandhi was his friend from school and inducted him into the Congress in 1980.

• His daughter Jai Inder Kaur is married to a Delhi-based businessman, Gurpal Singh.

• His wife, Preneet Kaur, served as the Minister of State in the Ministry of External Affairs from 2009 to 2014.

• His elder sister, Heminder Kaur, is married to K. Natwar Singh (former Foreign Minister).

• Amarinder’s wife, Preneet Kaur, and former IPS Officer Simranjeet Singh Mann’s wife are sisters.

• He has been associated with the Jat Maha Sabha for more than 3 decades and is an advocate of Jat Reservation under the OBC class.

• He has written a number of books on Sikh History & War.

• Reportedly, he is romantically engaged with a Pakistani journalist, Aroosa Alam, who he met way back in 2004 on a trip to Pakistan. ^[7]The Print