PUNJAB CHIEF MINISTERS

CHIEF MINISTERS OF PUNJAB

Name	From	To
Gopi Chand Bhargava	15/08/1947	13/04/1949
Bhim Sen Sachar	13/04/1949	18/10/1949
Gopi Chand Bhargava	18/10/1949	23/06/1951
Bhim Sen Sachar	17/04/1952	23/01/1956
Partap Singh Kairon	23/01/1956	21/06/1964
Ram Kishan	07/07/1964	05/07/1966
Giani Gurmukh Singh Musafir	01/11/1966	08/03/1967
Justice Gurnam Singh	08/03/1967	25/11/1967
Lachhman Singh Gill	25/11/1967	23/08/1968
Justice Gurnam Singh	17/02/1969	27/03/1970
Parkash Singh Badal	27/03/1970	14/06/1971
Giani Jail Singh	17/03/1972	30/04/1977
Parkash Singh Badal	20/06/1977	17/02/1980
Darbara Singh	06/06/1980	10/10/1983
Surjit Singh Barnala	29/09/1985	11/06/1987
Beant Singh	25/02/1992	31/08/1995
Harchand Singh Brar	31/08/1995	21/01/1996
Rajinder Kaur Bhatthal	21/01/1996	12/02/1997
Parkash Singh Badal	12/02/1997	28/02/2002
Amrinder Singh	26/02/2002	01/03/2007
Parkash Singh Badal	01/03/2007	Continuing

A Chief Minister of Punjab for than eight consecutive years, Partap Singh Kairon turned Punjab into an economic powerhouse. A no-nonsense administrator, he did not let procedures come in the way. The death anniversary of this builder of modern Punjab falls today (February 6)

First as minister and later as Chief Minister, Kairon laid the foundation of modern agriculture in Punjab. He piloted various land reforms that empowered the actual cultivator. The processes that Kairon began of state-sponsored consolidation of land, construction of access roads and electrification would ultimately enable Punjab to emerge as the state that fed the nation single-handed.

Source: An excerpt from the article titled: HOW KAIRON CHANGED THE FACE OF PUNJAB by M.Rajivlochan, Professor of contemporary Indian History and Chairman, Department of History, Punjab University, Chandigarh (India) in The Tribune February 6, 2012.