Amrita Warring, born 18 November 1978, is the wife of MP and Punjab Congress President Raja Warring. A postgraduate in Computer Applications, she founded the Aasra Foundation - an NGO focused on education and healthcare for underprivileged communities in Punjab. She was an active campaigner across all of Raja Warring's elections and made her own electoral debut in the November 2024 Gidderbaha bypoll as the Congress candidate, losing to AAP's Dimpy Dhillon by 21,969 votes. The couple have two children - daughter Aekom and son Amaaninder.
Behind every consequential political career in Punjab, there is often a story of quiet, consistent support on the ground. In the case of Amarinder Singh Raja Warring - Member of Parliament from Ludhiana and President of the Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee - that story belongs in large part to his wife, Amrita Warring. Long before she entered electoral politics herself, Amrita Warring had already built an independent public identity as a social worker, an advocate for education and healthcare, and an active presence at the constituency level throughout her husband's years as Gidderbaha MLA.
Who Is Amrita Warring?
Amrita Warring was born on 18 November 1978. She holds a postgraduate degree - a Master of Computer Applications - and has spent a significant portion of her adult life engaged in social work and community welfare in Punjab. She is the founder of the Aasra Foundation, a non-governmental organisation that focuses on education and healthcare for underprivileged communities. The Foundation's tagline, "giving back to society," reflects the philosophy she has consistently articulated in public - that public service is not a function of electoral office but a prior, personal commitment.
Her public role as a social worker predates her formal entry into electoral politics. During Raja Warring's three terms as Gidderbaha MLA - from 2012 to 2024 - Amrita Warring worked actively in the constituency, organising eye check-up camps, healthcare programmes, and community outreach through the Aasra Foundation. The civil hospital in Gidderbaha, which was adjudged the best in the sub-district category under the national Kayakalp programme in 2019, and the government college and child and mother care centre set up during that period, were projects she was closely associated with and publicly credited.
Raja Warring Family - Personal Life
Amarinder Singh Raja Warring and Amrita Warring have two children together - a daughter named Aekom and a son named Amaaninder. The couple have been based in Punjab throughout Raja Warring's political career, maintaining a consistent presence both in Gidderbaha during his MLA years and subsequently in Ludhiana after his election as MP in 2024.
Raja Warring's personal background is well-documented: born on 29 November 1977 in Sri Muktsar Sahib, he lost his parents at a young age and was raised by his maternal uncles and the Sindhwani family. His political journey - from student leader to Indian Youth Congress President to three-time Gidderbaha MLA and now MP from Ludhiana - has been documented at length on the official biography page.
Amrita Warring in Punjab Politics - A Documented Public Role
Amrita Warring's public involvement in Punjab politics has been substantial and consistent, even before she entered electoral competition herself.
During the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, when Raja Warring contested from Bathinda against SAD's Harsimrat Kaur Badal, Amrita single-handedly covered over 400 of the 600 villages in the Bathinda constituency - holding meetings in more than a dozen villages daily, from early morning to late night. Reporters who covered the campaign described her as the most active canvasser in the constituency, someone who carried the campaign not as a spouse in a support role but as an independent political worker with her own connect to voters.
During the 2024 Lok Sabha elections in Ludhiana, Amrita again played a central campaign role, describing the experience as one in which people treated her family with deep warmth and affection.
Her most prominent individual political moment came in November 2024, when the Indian National Congress nominated her as its candidate for the Gidderbaha bypoll - the seat her husband had held for three consecutive terms before vacating it after his election as Ludhiana MP. At 45, Amrita Warring made her electoral debut, arguing that more than 13 years of work in the constituency - on development, healthcare, and community welfare - gave her a strong mandate.
The bypoll was ultimately won by AAP's Hardeep Singh Dimpy Dhillon, who defeated Amrita Warring by 21,969 votes in a high-turnout contest. The Congress vote share in Gidderbaha, however, held at 36.17 per cent - a figure Raja Warring publicly acknowledged as a retention of the party's core base in the constituency, even against the ruling AAP advantage.
Aasra Foundation - Community Work at the Ground Level
The Aasra Foundation, founded and run by Amrita Warring, represents the most sustained expression of her public work outside of electoral politics. Operating in the fields of education and healthcare, the Foundation has conducted programmes including free medical camps, spectacles distribution, and education support initiatives across Punjab.
Her work through the Foundation has been cited in multiple reports as evidence of her independent connect with communities in the Malwa belt - a connect she carried directly into her electoral campaign in November 2024, when she reminded voters in Gidderbaha that the Foundation's work in their villages had preceded any political calculations.
Amrita Warring's public profile reflects a pattern that is increasingly relevant in Punjab politics: the role of a politically engaged spouse who builds independent institutional credibility through social work, and who is eventually able to translate that credibility into electoral mobilisation. Her journey, from the villages of Gidderbaha to a direct electoral contest, is a documented and significant part of the Warring family's story in Punjab.
For more on Raja Warring's political journey and public work, read his full biography or explore the Congress journey article. Visit the articles section for more updates on Punjab politics.
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