See the events in life of Zail Singh in Chronological Order His contributions to the farmers of PEPSU in removing inequalities and providing them their rights was immense.After his able leadership as the Revenue Minister of PEPSU, he was made the Minister of Agriculture in 1951.In 1956 PEPSU was integrated with the state of Punjab and Zail Singh became a member of the Rajya Sabha where he served till 1962.In the 1972 Punjab Assembly elections, Congress came to the power and Giani Zail Singh became the Chief Minister of Punjab. He was the second Muslim to be elected as the President of India and also the second to die in state.Reddy was the sixth President of India and the first to be elected unopposed and the youngest to occupy Rashtrapati Bhavan.The only Sikh President of India till now, Singh also served as the Chief Minister of Punjab.As a President of India, Venkataraman had the distinction of working with four Prime Ministers.Sharma earlier served as the eighth Vice-President of India and the Chief Minister of Bhopal state. He was the first Sikh to hold this position. Narayanan, who formerly served as a diplomat, served as India's ambassador to China and the United States.Known for his role in the development of India's ballistic missile and nuclear weapons programmes, A.P.J. Zail Singh who was just 15 at that time was deeply impacted by the incident.He was actively involved in politics from his teenage and had joined the Shiromani Akali Dal when he was just 15. He arranged massive religious gatherings, started public functions with a traditional Sikh prayer, inaugurated a highway named after Guru Gobind Singh, and named a township after the Guru's son. He was also very religious and held huge religious meetings and named a highway after Guru Gobind Singh.He joined Indira Gandhi’s cabinet as Minister of Home Affairs in 1980 and was elected to be the President in 1982. However, he was a very confident young man highly skilled in the art of public speaking.While in college he acquired the title “Gyani” because of his knowledge of the Guru Granth Sahib and because of his extensive training in religious studies. A freedom fighter himself, he arranged for lifelong pension scheme for freedom fighters of Punjab. He was very fluent in Punjabi and Urdu and could hold his audience in a trance with his oratory skills.In 1931, Bhagat Singh and his companions Sukhdev and Rajguru were hanged to death by the British for their extremist nationalist activities.
As fate would have it, this aspiring politician soon joined the Indian National Congress and held several prestigious posts in the cabinet before being elected the president of India. He fervently participated in nationalist activities and was frequently imprisoned, even kept in solitary confinement. Giani Zail Singh (1982 - 1987) The only Sikh President of India till now, Singh also served as the Chief Minister of Punjab.