Surjit Singh Barnala
Surjit Singh Barnala was an Indian politician who served as the chief minister of Punjab state from 1985 to 1987. Barnala also served as governor of Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand, Andhra Pradesh and Andaman and Nicobar Islands. He is the second longest-serving governor in Indian history after Dr. A R Kidwai.
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Surjit Singh Barnala was an Indian politician who served as the chief minister of Punjab state from 1985 to 1987. Barnala also served as governor of Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand, Andhra Pradesh and Andaman and Nicobar Islands and a Union Minister on handling various portfolios. He is the second longest-serving governor in Indian history after Dr. A R Kidwai and the only governor to have served three terms in the history of the Tamil Nadu State of 300 years. Like few other anti-Congress leaders of his time, he has spent about three and a half years as a political prisoner, including 11 months in solitary confinement.
In 1996, Barnala once again came close to becoming prime minister as in 1996 general elections; with no political party getting a mandate, it was a good time for a regional party to have its prime minister. He was a candidate of the BJP and its allies in the election of the vice-president of India. His paintings are on display in various official residences he occupied in the country. His other book released in 2007 is titled My Other Daughters and has been translated in braille by Kunwari Singh Negi.
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