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Parkash Singh Badal

1927 - 2023

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Parkash Singh Badal (8 December 1927 – 25 April 2023) was an Indian politician and Sikh rights advocate who served as the 8th Chief Minister of Punjab from 1970 to 1971, from 1977 to 1980, from 1997 to 2002, and from 2007 to 2017, the longest serving Chief Minister of Punjab till date. He was also Leader of the Opposition in the Punjab Legislative Assembly from 1972 to 1977, 1980 to 1983 and from 2002 to 2007 and the 11th Union Minister of Agriculture and Farmers' Welfare in the Morarji Desai ministry from 1977 to 1977. He was the patron of Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), a Sikh-centered regional political party, and the president of the party from 1995 to 2008, when he was replaced by his son Sukhbir Singh Badal. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Parkash Singh Badal has received more than 2,038,607 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Parkash Singh Badal is the 16,427th most popular politician, the 796th most popular biography from India and the 223rd most popular Indian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Parkash Singh Badal ranks 16,427 out of 19,576. Before him are Panagiotis Pavlidis, Pinarayi Vijayan, Aleqa Hammond, Gus Dillon, Ödön Gróf, and Magne Thomassen. After him are Dragan Đilas, Bailey Olter, Jim Marurai, Vitaly Mutko, Sigurður Ingi Jóhannsson, and Dumuzid the Fisherman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1927, Parkash Singh Badal ranks 417. Before him are Tibor Csík, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Tatyana Zaslavskaya, W. S. Merwin, Johnnie Ray, and Red Mitchell. After him are Michael Constantine, Walter Bahr, Gábor Benedek, John Rhodes, Elio Morille, and Anjali Devi. Among people deceased in 2023, Parkash Singh Badal ranks 526. Before him are Jean-Jacques Favier, Richard Davis, Samuel T. Durrance, Bob Knight, Nigel Lawson, and Inga Swenson. After him are Andy Rourke, Christo Jivkov, George Maharis, Anne Heywood, Vani Jairam, and Richard G. Hovannisian.

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In India

Among people born in India, Parkash Singh Badal ranks 796 out of 1,861. Before him are Nirupa Roy (1931), Arjun Kapoor (1985), Michael Bates (1920), Asrani (1940), Amol Palekar (1944), and Pinarayi Vijayan (1945). After him are Rukhmabai (1864), Tarsem Singh (1961), Johnny Lever (1957), Sharat Saxena (1950), Shobhna Samarth (1916), and Kapil Dev (1959).

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Among POLITICIANS In India

Among politicians born in India, Parkash Singh Badal ranks 223. Before him are K. Chandrashekar Rao (1954), Yashwant Sinha (1937), Manohar Joshi (1937), Gopal Swarup Pathak (1896), Rabri Devi (1956), and Pinarayi Vijayan (1945). After him are Murli Manohar Joshi (1934), Shyamala Gopalan (1938), Madhavrao Scindia (1945), E. M. S. Namboodiripad (1909), V. K. Krishna Menon (1896), and Adolf Lu Hitler Marak (1958).

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