He was jailed again in the 1942 Quit India Movement and was elected to the Constituent Assembly in 1946. He entered the Punjab Legislative Assembly as an Akali nominee in 1937, defeating the Congress candidate, Baba Gurdit Singh of Sarhali.įrom 1941 to 1946, he was the General Secretary of the Punjab Provincial Congress Committee. He was jailed in 1932 for five years for participating in civil disobedience. He was first a member of the Shiromani Akali Dal, and later of the Indian National Congress. He joined politics and the newspaper was eventually shut down. On 13 April 1932 he started an English language weekly paper called The New Era in Amritsar. Surinder's son Adesh Partap Singh Kairon is married to the daughter of Prakash Singh Badal, Preneeet Kaur and is a minister in the Punjab government. While the younger Gurinder remained Congressman like his father, Surinder later joined Shiromani Akali Dal. Partap Singh Kairon had two sons and one daughter Surinder Singh Kairon, Sarbrinder Kairon Grewal, Gurinder Singh Kairon. He was influenced by farming methods practised in the U.S.A and hoped to replicate the same in India later. He did his Masters in political science from the University of Michigan.He also did his Masters in Economics from University of California at Berkeley before going to Michigan. Brown Cambridge School in Dehra Dun and Khalsa College, Amritsar and then went to the U.S., where he supported himself with work on farms and factories. His father, Nihal Singh Kairon, was a pioneer in initiating women's education in the province. His last name was taken from the village of Kairon in the Amritsar district, province of Punjab during the British Raj era. Partap Singh Kairon was born in 1901, into a Sikh family.
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