{"id":52181,"date":"2021-09-13T05:58:51","date_gmt":"2021-09-13T05:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=52181"},"modified":"2021-09-13T05:58:52","modified_gmt":"2021-09-13T05:58:52","slug":"iqbal-singh-lalpura-named-chairman-of-national-commission-for-minorities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/iqbal-singh-lalpura-named-chairman-of-national-commission-for-minorities\/","title":{"rendered":"Iqbal Singh Lalpura named chairman of National Commission for Minorities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Former IPS officer\u00a0<strong>Iqbal Singh Lalpura<\/strong>\u00a0has been appointed chairman of the\u00a0<strong>National Commission for Minorities.<\/strong>\u00a0He hails from Punjab and has authored several books on Sikh philosophy. He has also won several awards such as the president\u2019s police medal, police medal for meritorious services, Shiromani Sikh Sahitkar Award, and Sikh scholar award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lalpura, during his tenure as IPS officer, served as SSP Amritsar, SSP Tarantaran, and Additional inspector general CID Amritsar. He joined BJP in 2012 after retirement. Lalpura has written nearly 14 books on Sikh philosophy and history, such as<strong>&nbsp;\u2018Japji Sahib ek vichaar\u2019, Gurbaani ek vichaar\u2019,<\/strong>&nbsp;and<strong>&nbsp;\u2018Raj Karega Khalsa\u2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sardar Iqbal Singh Lalpura took charge as the Chairman, National Commission for Minorities in the presence of Union Minister for Minority Affairs Shri Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi in New Delhi today.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking on the occasion Shri Naqvi extended his best wishes to Sardar Iqbal Singh Lalpura in his new responsibility and said that his vast experience in administration, social and literary fields will be helpful in strengthening Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi\u2019s commitment to \u201cSabka Sath, Sabka Vikas, Sabka Vishwas, Sabka Prayas\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former IPS officer\u00a0Iqbal Singh Lalpura\u00a0has been appointed chairman of the\u00a0National Commission for Minorities.\u00a0He hails from Punjab and has authored several books on Sikh philosophy. He has also won several awards such as the president\u2019s police medal, police medal for meritorious services, Shiromani Sikh Sahitkar Award, and Sikh scholar award. Lalpura, during his tenure as IPS [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":894,"featured_media":52182,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1417],"tags":[1627,1626],"class_list":["post-52181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-september-2021","tag-ips-officer","tag-national-commission-for-minoritie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/894"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52183,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52181\/revisions\/52183"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}