Remembering Giani Zail Singh: The seventh president of India, Giani Zail Singh is remembered because the only Sikh politician who took the president’s oath. He had a notable political background and served the nation as president from 1982 to 87. The member of the Indian National Congress (INC) was a loyalist to former Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi. Singh was well-known for his unwavering loyalty to her and was born as Jarnail Singh on May 5 1916 in Punjab’s Faridkot district.
Today, President Droupadi Murmu paid tributes to former President Giani Zail Singh on his beginning anniversary, in Rairangpur.
Here are some fascinating insights from his life:
- Because of getting nice information of the Sikh doctrines and philosophies, Zail Singh earned the ‘Giani’ title which suggests ‘a discovered individual’. He additionally discovered the holy e book of Sikhs, Guru Granth Sahib.
- Impressed together with his public talking, the authorities of the Shaheed Sikh Missionary College gave him admission though he wasn’t in a position to fulfil the minimal qualification of a matriculation move.
- He was fluent in Urdu in addition to Punjabi language.
- Singh established the Praja Mandal in 1983 in his dwelling district of Faridkot. Praja Mandal was the political organisation allied with Congress.
- Singh was sentenced to 5 years in jail due to the insurrectionary act.
- He served the nation as a member of the Rajya Member from 1965 until 1962. Before this, he took oath as Minister of Agriculture in 1951.
- In 1972, Zail Singh was elected because the Chief Minister of Punjab. This was the turning level for his political profession.
- He was appointed as the cupboard minister of then-PM Indira Gandhi within the Ministry of Home Affairs in 1980.
- He was unanimously chosen because the president on July 25, 1982.
