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|name = Amarjeet Kaur<br />
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|birth_place = [[Punjab, India|Punjab]], India<br />
|birth_date = 1952<br />
|residence = <br />
|nationality = <br />
|office = General Secretary of the [[All India Trade Union Congress]]<br />
|term_start = 11 December 2017<br />
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|predecessor = [[Gurudas Dasgupta]]<br />
|successor = <br />
|party = [[Communist Party of India]]<br />
|occupation = [[Trade unionist]], Politician<br />
|education = MSc Physics, LLB<br />
|alma_mater = [[University of Delhi]]<br />
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'''Amarjeet Kaur''' (Born in 1952) is an Indian politician and National Secretariat member of the [[Communist party of India]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/trade-unions-must-go-beyond-labour-issues-top-woman-tu-leader/articleshow/62229834.cms|title=Trade Unions must go beyond labour issues: top woman TU leader|via=The Economic Times}}</ref> She is General Secretary of the [[All India Trade Union Congress]]. She is the first woman in Independent India to be at the helm of one of the central trade unions, after [[Maniben Kara]]’s election as AITUC General Secretary in 1936.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.labourfile.com/section-detail.php?aid=580#|title=Amarjeet Kaur: The Trade Unionist Who Broke Gender Barriers|website=www.labourfile.com}}</ref><br />
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Kaur went on to become the first woman general secretary of the [[All India Students Federation]] (AISF) for seven years from 1979 and General Secretary of [[National Federation of Indian Women]] (NFIW) from 1999 to 2002.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.aisf.org.in/past-leadership-conferences.php|title=AISF – Official|website=www.aisf.org.in}}</ref> She was AITUC National Secretary from 1994 to 2017. While a student, she was jailed in Delhi for 10 days in 1972 for participating in a CPI protest over price-rise, and for four days in 1977 for a joint Jamia-JNU-Delhi University students’ protest over Aligarh Muslim University riots.<br />
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