Preneet kaur with her daughter-in-law

Unmindful of increasing mercury level, Preneet’s daughter Jai Inder Kaur, and her daughter-in-law, Reshma Kaur, have been spearheading her campaign in different areas to ensure her victory for the fourth time from Patiala, where she is facing a stiff challenge from SAD’s Deepinder Singh Dhillon and AAP’s Dr Dharamvir Gandhi.

With Preneet’s husband and former chief minister captain Amarinder Singh busy in his own campaign, their daughter Jai Inder has been managing her campaign affairs in Patiala 1 constituency.

Preneet’s daughter-in-law Reshma has been looking after her campaign in Patiala II constituency.
Sharing a good rapport with local residents, Jai Inder, who has specially came for campaigning purpose, is meeting close aides of her father and mother, seeking day to day feedback of the electioneering process.

Accompanied by her aunt, Amarinder’s sister Harpreet Kaur Gill and Ishwarpreet Kaur Kahlon, Jai Inder usually holds seven to eight ward-wise rallies besides holding door to door campaign and ‘nukar’ meetings exhorting people to vote for her mother with folded hands.

From daily schedules of campaigning in Patiala 1 constituency to finalising meetings of her mother with senior Congress leaders of the area, Jai Inder takes all the decisions.

This is not for the first time that she has been handling political affairs of the family as she had played an instrumental role in campaigning for her parents during last parliamentary and state general assembly elections in 2009 and 2012.

“Our family has been serving people of this constituency for past many decades. I am here to ensure victory for my mother who has played an important role in the development of the city,” she said.

“From constructing roads and over bridges

Patiala, May 7

After resuming her campaigning, BJP Lok Sabha candidate Preneet Kaur today addressed a public rally at Nabha.

Touching an emotional chord, she said the district and its people were akin to her family and called herself “Patiala ki Bahu”. Despite arriving here as a daughter-in-law, she has been embraced with love like a daughter.

The four-time MP suspended her campaigning following the death of farmer Surinderpal Singh (65) who was protesting her visit at Sehra village on May 4.

While addressing the public meeting in Nabha, she said this affection by people had played a pivotal role in her husband’s election as Chief Minister, enabling him to spearhead various developmental initiatives.

During an event at Bauda Gate, Nabha, Preneet Kaur acknowledged Nabha’s substantial contribution to the development of the district.

She emphasised Nabha’s global recognition in agricultural machinery and aspired to transform it into a modern focal point, thereby elevating its national stature.

Indian politician and Queen Consort of Patiala Household

Preneet Kaur (born 3 October 1944) 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. She is married to Amarinder Singh, who was the 15th Chief Minister of Punjab. She joined the Congress party, to which her husband also belonged once, and contested parliamentary elections repeatedly from the Patiala constituency. In February 2023, she was suspended from the party for supporting BJP leader and her husband Amarinder Singh and campaigning for candidates of the BJP or BJP-allied parties. She 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.

Background and personal life

Praneet Kaur was born in Shimla, India into a KahlonJat Sikh family. She is the daughter of Sardar Gian Singh Kahlon, an officer in the Indian Civil Service, and Satinder Kaur. Gian Singh Kahlon entered the Indian Civil Service in 1937, when it was extremely rare for an Indian to be granted entry into that elite administrative service. He served in many senior positions, including as Chief Secretary of Punjab in the 1960s. He died in December 2002. 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 Kaur attended St. Bede's College, Shimla and graduated from The Convent of Jesus and Mary, Shimla.

In October 1964, Praneet Kaur was married to Capt. Amarinder Singh in a match arranged by parents in the usual Indian tradition. Her 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 w