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{{Infobox Indian politician<br />
| image = Gurbinder Kaur Brar Official portrait 1980.jpg<br />
| office1 = [[List of Leader of Opposition in Punjab Legislative Assembly|Leader of Opposition in Punjab Assembly]]<br />
| term1 = 29 September 1985 – 11 May 1987<br />
| predecessor1 = [[Prakash Singh Badal]]<br />
| successor1 = [[Satnam Singh Kainth]]<br />
| constituency1 = [[Muktsar Assembly Constituency|Muktsar]]<br />
| office2 = [[List of members of the 7th Lok Sabha#Punjab|Member of 7th Lok Sabha]]<br />
| term_start2 = 1980<br />
| term_end2 = 1984<br />
| predecessor2 = [[Balwant Singh Ramoowalia]]<br />
| successor2 = [[Shaminder Singh]]<br />
| constituency2 = [[Faridkot (Lok Sabha constituency)|Faridkot]]<br />
| birth_date = {{birth date|1922|08|12|df=yes}} [[Kairon]] , [[Amritsar District | Amritsar]] , [[Punjab Province (British India) | Punjab]] , [[British India]]<br />
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2013|09|07|1922|08|12|df=yes}}<br />
| spouse = [[Harcharan Singh Brar]]<br />
| party = [[Indian National Congress]]<br />
}}<br />
'''Gurbrinder Kaur Brar''' (1922–2013) was an [[Indian National Congress]] (INC) politician from the state of [[Punjab, India]].<br />
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== Early life ==<br />
Gurbinder Kaur was born in [[Kairon]] village of [[Amritsar district]] on 12 August 1922 to Jaswant Singh and his wife. She graduated from [[Kinnaird College]], Lahore and received her [[Master of Arts]] degree from [[Government College University (Lahore)|Government College, Lahore]].<ref name="Lok Sabha">{{cite web|title=Members Bioprofile: Brar,Smt. Gurbrinder Kaur|url=http://164.100.47.194/loksabha/writereaddata/biodata_1_12/2696.htm|publisher=[[Lok Sabha]]|accessdate=2 November 2017}}</ref> She was a niece of [[Partap Singh Kairon]].<ref name="HT">{{cite news|last1=Kaur|first1=Sukhdeep|title=The Brar dynasty: Not a male bastion, MLA Karan Brar is holding fort to the legacy|url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/punjab/the-brar-dynasty-not-a-male-bastion-mla-karan-brar-is-holding-fort-to-the-legacy/story-AB45uq0DrcRUYiHuzZjTEO.html|accessdate=2 November 2017|work=[[Hindustan Times]]|date=25 December 2016}}</ref><br />
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==Career==<br />
In her youth Brar joined the Indian National Congress party and in recognition of her work, she was appointed the head of [[Firozpur district|Ferozepur district]]'s Congress Committee in 1964, a post she held till 1970. She also served as the vice-president of [[Bharatiya Grameen Mahila Sangh]].<ref name="Lok Sabha" /><br />
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Brar contested her first [[1972 Punjab Legislative Assembly election|assembly election in 1972]] from [[Malout Assembly Constituency|Malout]] and defeated Gurmeet Singh of the [[Shiromani Akali Dal]] (SAD) by a margin of 11,676 votes.<ref name="HT" /><ref>{{cite web|title=Statistical Report on General Election, 1972 to the Legislative Assembly of Punjab|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1972/Statistical%20Report%20Punjab%201972.pdf|publisher=[[Election Commission of India]]|accessdate=2 November 2017|page=15}}</ref> The following year, [[Zail Singh]], then [[Chief Minister of Punjab (India)|Chief Minister of Punjab]] included Brar in his cabinet.<ref name="Sidhu1994">{{cite book|last=Sidhu|first=Lakhwinder Singh|title=Party Politics in Punjab|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iLaOAAAAMAAJ|year=1994|publisher=Harnam Publications|isbn=978-81-85247-08-3|page=119}}</ref> She was made a Minister of State for Housing and Slum Clearance, Relief and Rehabilitation, Urban Development and Urban Estates and Habitat.<ref>{{cite book|title=Asian Recorder|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LgYuAQAAIAAJ|volume=22|year=1976|publisher=K. K. Thomas|location=New Delhi|page=xi}}</ref><br />
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Later the Congress party fielded Brar in [[Faridkot (Lok Sabha constituency)|Faridkot]] for the [[1980 Indian general election|elections]] to the [[7th Lok Sabha]], from where she defeated SAD's [[Balwant Singh Ramoowalia]], polling 50.43% of votes against his 46.06%.<ref>{{cite web|title=Statistical Report on General Election, 1980 to the Seventh Lok Sabha|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1980/Vol_I_LS_80.pdf|publisher=[[Election Commission of India]]|accessdate=2 November 2017|page=197}}</ref> During her tenure as a [[Member of Parliament (India)|Member of Parliament]], she served on the Committee on Public Undertakings.<ref name="Obituary">{{cite web|title=Fifteenth Loksabha: Session : 14 Date : 05-12-2013|url=http://164.100.47.194/Loksabha/Debates/Result15.aspx?dbsl=10638|publisher=[[Lok Sabha]]|accessdate=2 November 2017}}</ref> A year after completing her term in the central legislature, she contested the [[1985 Punjab Legislative Assembly election|1985 Punjab assembly election]] from [[Muktsar Assembly Constituency|Muktsar]] and defeated her nearest rival by 5,277 votes. SAD formed the government after gaining absolute majority while Brar was chosen the [[Punjab Legislative Assembly#Leader of Opposition in Punjab Assembly|leader of the opposition]] in the state assembly.<ref name="HT" /><ref>{{cite web|title=Statistical Report on General Election, 1985 to the Legislative Assembly of Punjab|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1985/StatisticalReportPunjab1985.pdf|publisher=[[Election Commission of India]]|accessdate=2 November 2017|pages=9, 118}}</ref><br />
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After her husband [[Harcharan Singh Brar]] became the chief minister, she acted as [[Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee]]'s ''de facto'' chief for a short time in 1996.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Vinayak|first1=R.|title=CM in trouble: Dissidents confront Punjab Chief Minister Harcharan Singh Brar|url=http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/dissidents-confront-punjab-chief-minister-harcharan-singh-brar/1/282946.html|accessdate=2 November 2017|work=[[India Today]]|date=15 February 1996}}</ref><br />
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==Personal life==<br />
Gurbinder married Harcharan Singh Brar on 24 February 1948.<ref name="Lok Sabha" /> Together they had a son [[Adesh Kanwarjit Singh Brar]] and a daughter Kamaljit 'Babli' Brar.<ref name="HT" /> She died on 7 September 2013 at [[Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research]], Chandigarh.<ref name="Obituary" /><ref>{{cite news|title=Badal, Bajwa mourn death of former CM's wife|url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/chandigarh/badal-bajwa-mourn-death-of-former-cm-s-wife/story-QdkIsbFWgCjMLnyyvN2RFO.html|accessdate=2 November 2017|work=[[Hindustan Times]]|date=7 September 2013|location=Chandigarh}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Ex-CM Brar’s wife dies at 85|url=http://www.tribuneindia.com/2013/20130908/punjab.htm#10|accessdate=2 November 2017|work=[[The Tribune (Chandigarh)|The Tribune]]|date=7 September 2013|location=Chandigarh}}</ref><br />
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