Joginder Jaswant Singh

General Joginder Jaswant Singh (born 17 September 1945) was the 22nd Chief of the Army Staff (COAS)of the Indian Army. He was appointed on November 27, 2004, and took over the role when his predecessor, General N C Vij, retired on 31 January 2005. He was succeeded by General Deepak Kapoor. He served as the COAS from January 31, 2005, to September 30, 2007.

He is the first Sikh to have led the Indian Army and the 11th chief of army staff from the Western Command based at Chandimandir. His selection was not a surprise, as at the time of his appointment he was the most senior officer in the army after General N C Vij. Following his retirement, he became Governor of the state of Arunachal Pradesh on 27 January 2008.

He is an alumnus of the National Defence Academy, Khadakwasla and was commissioned into the 9 Maratha Light Infantry on 2 August 1964.

Biography

Early life

Jaswant Singh

Jaswant Singh (born 3 January 1938) is an Indian politician. He earlier belonged to the Bharatiya Janata Party and has held many portfolios in the national cabinet including Finance, External Affairs and Defence during the NDA regime (1998 to 2004). He was also the Leader of Opposition from 2004 to 2009 in the Rajya Sabha and the Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission of India(1998–99). He is known for his rigid political views.

On 29 March 2014, he was expelled from the BJP after he refused to withdraw his nomination as an independent in the Barmer-Jaisalmer Lok Sabha constituency against his own party candidate.

On 7 August 2014, he had a fall at his residency and suffered serious head injuries. He was admitted to Army's Research and Referral hospital in Delhi for treatment.

Early life

Singh was born on 3 January 1938 at village Jasol, Barmer district, Rajasthan in a Rajput family. His father was Thakur Sardara Singh and mother was Kunwar Baisa. Singh is married to Sheetal Kanwar. They have two sons. his elder son Manvendra Singh former Member of Parliament from Barmer. He was an officer in the Indian Army in the 1960s and is an alumnus of Mayo College and the National Defence Academy (India), Khadakwasla.

Jaswant Singh (field hockey)

Jaswant Singh (born 1931) is an Indian field hockey player. He was born in Punjab, Pakistan. He won a silver medal at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome.

References

Jaswant Singh (Khoji)

Jaswant Singh Khoji (known as Baboo ji ) is founder of Braham Bunga Trust and Naam Simran congregation camps Dodra.During his service of Indian Army , while posted at Burma , at age 24 , he got baptised at Sri Akal Takhat Sahib Amritsar and started leading life as per principals and concepts of Sikh religion. In army he served at post of clerk and was nicknamed by his friends as' Baboo jee'.After retirement, with some of his old army companions from Burma he started movement of Sikh congregation Camps .He died in 1999.During his life time never advertised about himself or his works, rather in later years of his life detached himself from the very congregations he started so that people may not start worshiping him and lived in solitude restricted to his home with few friends. He was greatly impressed by writings of Prof. Puran Singh and Bhai Vir Singh both Sikh scholars and writers.During his Calgary USA visit in 1981 and subsequently this movement of periodic Sikh congregation for Kirtan and Naam Simran of Almighty was spread over to USA, Canada other countries.

Joginder

Joginder (real name Joginder Shelly) was an Indian actor, director, producer, writer, singer, songwriter and distributor. Two Hindi films produced–directed–written–acted–distributed by him were "Super Hits" – Bindiya aur Bandook and Ranga Khush. (In Indian cinema any film which runs for over 50 weeks continuously is classified as "Super Hit.") He successfully instituted a plagiarism suit against the producers of one of India's greatest films Sholay for substantially copying his work. The character Ranga Khush was a household name in India in the 1970s, especially among little children who copied his maniacal laugh and rolling eyeballs, and favourably compares with Gabbar Singh who copied him. The film Ranga Khush was a spinoff from Joginder's two-word dialogue in Bindiya aur Bandook (known internationally as "The girl with the gun").

He was often placed on lists of "worst movie directors", a fan-generated title he shared with Ed Wood. In common with Wood, Joginder made a run of cheap and poorly produced films, now humorously celebrated for their unsophisticated special effects, large amounts of ill-fitting stock footage, idiosyncratic dialogue, eccentric casts and outlandish plot elements, although his flair for showmanship gave his projects at least a modicum of commercial success.