Jagir Kaur, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Jagir Kaur

Indian politician

Date of Birth: 15-Oct-1954

Place of Birth: Jalandhar, Punjab, India

Profession: politician

Nationality: India

Zodiac Sign: Libra

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Bibi Jagir Kaur is the first woman to be elected for the second time as the president of the Shiromani Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee (SGPC), an organisation that manages historic Sikh shrines and some educational institutions in the Indian states of Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and the Union Territory of Chandigarh. Ms.
Kaur's name was put forward by the senior Akali leader, Sukhdev Singh Bhaur, and seconded by another SGPC member, Harswinder Singh.
There were no other contenders.
She had held the same post from March 1999 to November 2000, when she resigned amid allegations that she was involved in the murder of her daughter.
The post became vacant since the death of the Akali stalwart, Gurcharan Singh Tohra, who served for 26 terms.
He died in March, 2004 after a brief illness.
In 2017, the Supreme Court rejected a plea by Bibi Jagir Kaur to suspend her conviction for the murder of her daughter Harpreet Kaur in 2000 so that she can contest the Assembly elections in Punjab.