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Darshan Singh Canadian
Darshan Singh Canadian (born Darshan A. Sangha in 1917, in Langeri, Punjab, India – 25 September 1986) was a Sikh trade union activist and communist organizer in Canada and India. Canada Darshan Singh Canadian immigrated to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada in 1937. Upon his arrival, his uncle attempted to get him a job at Dominion Sawmills resulting in the uncle being fired and Sangha being hired at five cents less pay an hour. He became active in the Labor-Progressive Party (as the Communist Party of Canada was known). He was one of the founders of the International Woodworkers of America and served as one of the union's organizers as well as its general secretary from 1942 to 1946. He led striking woodworkers on a march on the provincial capital of Victoria in 1946. He fought for the rights of B.C.'s East Indian woodworkers. Return to India Darshan Singh Canadian returned to India upon its independence in 1947 and adopted "Canadian" as his surname. He became activ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Langeri
Langeri is a village in Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar district of Punjab State, India. It is located away from postal head office Behram, from Banga, from district headquarter Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar and from state capital Chandigarh. The village is administrated by Sarpanch an elected representative of the village. Demography As of 2011, Langeri has a total number of 331 houses and population of 1526 of which 793 include are males while 733 are females according to the report published by Census India in 2011. The literacy rate of Langeri is 77.44%, higher than the state average of 75.84%. The population of children under the age of 6 years is 161 which is 10.55% of total population of Langeri, and child sex ratio is approximately 917 as compared to Punjab state average of 846. Most of the people are from Schedule Caste which constitutes 69.53% of total population in Langeri. The town does not have any Schedule Tribe population so far. As per the report published by Ce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
General Secretary
Secretary is a title often used in organizations to indicate a person having a certain amount of authority, power, or importance in the organization. Secretaries announce important events and communicate to the organization. The term is derived from the Latin word , "to distinguish" or "to set apart", the passive participle () meaning "having been set apart", with the eventual connotation of something private or confidential, as with the English word ''secret.'' A was a person, therefore, overseeing business confidentially, usually for a powerful individual (a king, pope, etc.). The official title of the leader of most communist and socialist political parties is the "General Secretary of the Central Committee" or "First Secretary of the Central Committee". When a communist party is in power, the general secretary is usually the country's ''de facto'' leader (though sometimes this leader also holds state-level positions to monopolize power, such as a presidency or premiership ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nidhan Singh Gudhan
Nidhan Singh Gudhan was a communist activist, a central team member of Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist). He was tortured and then hanged by Khalistan movement extremists. At the time of his death, he was leading Kisan Sangharsh Samiti of Ropar district. He was the founding editor of the Journal ''Surkh Rekha''. He also held the president-ship of Punjab Kisan Union. Earlier Life and Activism Death During Punjab insurgency, Khalistan movement extremists kidnapped Nidhan Singh Gudhan. He was tortured as the extremists were trying to investigate the secrets of Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) and about their revolutionary paper "Surkh Rekha". On refusing their demands, he was hanged to death. References See also *Arjan Singh Mastana *Baldev Singh Mann *Chanan Singh Dhoot *Darshan Singh Canadian *Deepak Dhawan *Jaimal Singh Padda * Pash *Professor Ravinder Singh Ravi *Sarvan Singh Cheema *Sumeet Preetlari *Punjab insurgency *Communist Party of India (M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jaimal Singh Padda
Jaimal Singh Padda was a poet, communist activist. He was shot dead on 17 March 1988 in Lakhan ka Padda village, Kapurthala district by Khalistan movement extremists. He was filmed reciting his poem Una Mitterandi Yaad Pyari, before his death, by Anand Patwardhan in his documentary Una Mitterandi Yaad Pyari. Earlier Life and Activism Death During Punjab insurgency, Jaimal Padda had been vocal against both the Sikh and the Hindu fundamentalists. He campaigned against both Sikh and Hindu fundamentalists. His slogan was “Naa Hindu Raaj, Naa Khalistan, Raaj Karega Mazdoor Kisaan” (Neither Hindu state, nor Khalistan, we want the working class to rule). On 17 March 1988, the shooters belonging to Khalistan Commando Force (KCF) shot him right outside his house. References See also *Achhar Singh Chhina *Baldev Singh Mann *Chanan Singh Dhoot *Darshan Singh Canadian *Deepak Dhawan *Nidhan Singh Gudhan * Pash *Professor Ravinder Singh Ravi *Sarvan Singh Cheema *Sumeet Preetlari * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gursharan Singh (theatre Director)
Gursharan Singh (September 16, 1929 – September 27, 2011) was a writer, political activist and a progressive director of Punjabi drama who played the part of Bhai Manna Singh in a popular Punjabi TV serial drama on DD Punjabi . He became known as Bhai Manna Singh among Punjab residents also work in the punjabi movie Man Jeete Jag Jeet(1973) he played Radha Saluja's father,Mutiyar (1979) an Soorma Bhagat (1993). He won the Kalidaasa Award in 2004 and died in Chandigarh at the age of 82.Bhaiji was written and played first drama on Nagal Dam as a engineer. Movies * Man Jeete Jag Jeet ''Man Jeete Jag Jeet'' is a 1973 religious Punjabi film directed by B.S. Thapa, starring Sunil Dutt, Radha Saluja and Ranjeet in lead roles. Music & Gurbani Shabad There are a total of 11 songs in the movie songs were composed by S. Mohinder ... (1973) as Gani ji * Mutiyar (1979) as Master Ji * Soorma Bhagat (1993) * Dastan-e-Punjab- TV Series * Bhai Manna Singh- on DD Punjabi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deepak Dhawan
Deepak Dhawan was the State Committee member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M)) representing Punjab and also Joint Secretary of Khet Mazdoor Union, a mass organisation of CPI(M), which campaigns for the rights of landless agricultural labourers. He was a member of All India Students Federation (AISF) in D.A.V College, Amritsar, and an elected President of Student Council (Progressive Student Front - a united front of SFI and AISF) at Guru Nanak Dev University. On 19 May 1987, he was killed by Khalistan movement extremists at Sangha village, Tarn Taran district. Commemoration On 19 June 2020, on the 33rd anniversary of his death, the Revolutionary Marxist Party of India launched a calendar to commemorate Dhawan and highlight the principles of socialism Socialism is a left-wing economic philosophy and movement encompassing a range of economic systems characterized by the dominance of social ownership of the means of production as opposed to private own ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baldev Singh Mann
''Baldev Mann'' was a left-wing activist of the Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) New Democracy. He was a state level leader of Kirti Kisan Union and the editor of ''Hirawal Dasta'' a revolutionary journal of the Naxalites. On 26 September 1986 he was killed by terrorists while on his way to his village, Bagga Kalan, in Amritsar district of Punjab. Sonia Mann, daughter of martyred comrade Baldev Singh Mann. Life Baldev Mann was born on 9 July 1952. He was the son of Inder Singh. He lived in the village Bagga Kalan Tehsil Ajnala, Amritsar. He completed his primary education at the village school he matriculated from government high school at Raja Sansi. He then went to Khalsa College, Amritsar, where he had to face detention from the college during the time of 'the Emergency', and graduated in 1983. While at Day College, he came in contact with the Communist Party of India ( CPIML-ND). He organized young people in his village under the banner of 'Naujawan Bhara ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Achhar Singh Chhina
Comrade Achhar Singh Chhina (2 October 1899 — 11 March 1981) was an Indian communist politician and independence activist. He served as a MLA in the Punjab Legislative Assembly for two terms. In 1962, he contested the Member of Parliament (MP) election from Tarn Taran and was defeated by 1990 votes. Early life He was born in the village Harsha Chhina, Tehsil Ajnala, Amritsar, Punjab. Achhar Singh Chhina did his basic studies at Khalsa College, where he played a pivotal role along with Pratap Singh Kairon, former Chief Minister of Punjab. The students and teachers of the college registered their protest against British rule by boycotting the visit of the Prince of Wales to the college. In 1921, Comrade Chhina and Pratap Singh Kairon went to the United States for further studies. Both went to the University of California, Berkeley, to do Masters in Economics. The same year, he joined the Gadar Party in San Francisco and got his first lesson in national politics. Politic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khalistan Movement
The Khalistan movement is a Sikh separatist movement seeking to create a homeland for Sikhs by establishing a sovereign state, called Khālistān (' Land of the Khalsa'), in the Punjab region. The proposed state would consist of land that currently forms Punjab, India and Punjab, Pakistan.: Ever since the separatist movement gathered force in the 1980s, the territorial ambitions of Khalistan have at times included Chandigarh, sections of the Indian Punjab, including the whole of North India, and some parts of the western states of India.Crenshaw, Martha, 1995, ''Terrorism in Context'', Pennsylvania State University, p. 364 Prime Minister of Pakistan Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, according to Jagjit Singh Chohan, had proposed all out help to create Khalistan during his talks with Chohan, following the conclusion of the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971. The call for a separate Sikh state began in the wake of the fall of the British Empire. In 1940, the first explicit call for Khalistan was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Punjab Legislative Assembly
The Punjab Legislative Assembly or the Punjab Vidhan Sabha is the unicameral legislature of the state of Punjab in India. The Sixteenth Punjab Legislative Assembly was constituted in March 2022. At present, it consists of 117 members, directly elected from 117 single-seat constituencies. The tenure of the Legislative Assembly is five years unless dissolved sooner. The Speaker of the sixteenth assembly is Kultar Singh Sandhwan. The meeting place of the Legislative Assembly since 6 March 1961 is the ''Vidhan Bhavan'' in Chandigarh. History In the British Raj, an Executive Council was formed under The Indian Councils Act, 1861. It was only under the Government of India Act 1919 that a Legislative Council was set up in Punjab. Later, under the Government of India Act 1935, the Punjab Legislative Assembly was constituted with a membership of 175. It was summoned for the first time on 1 April 1937. In 1947, Punjab Province was partitioned into West Punjab and East Punjab a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hoshiarpur District
Hoshiarpur district is a district of Punjab, India, Punjab state in northern India. Hoshiarpur, one of the oldest districts of Punjab, is located in the North-east part of the Punjab state and shares common boundaries with Gurdaspur district in the north-west, Jalandhar district and Kapurthala district in south-west, Kangra district and Una district of Himachal Pradesh in the north-east. Hoshiarpur district comprises 4 sub-divisions, 10 community development blocks, 9 urban local bodies and 1417 villages. The district has an area of 3365 km2. and a population of 1,586,625 persons as per census 2011. Hoshiarpur along with the districts of Nawanshehar, Kapurthala and parts of Jalandhar represents one of the cultural region of Punjab called Doaba or the Bist Doab - the tract of land between two rivers namely Beas and Sutlej. The area along with the Shivalik foothills on the right side of Chandigarh-Pathankot road in Hoshiarpur is submountainous and this part of the district is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Garhshanker
Garhshankar is a city in Hoshiarpur district in the state of Punjab, India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so .... History It was founded by Doad Rajput king named Shankar Sahai in 1000 AD. Garhshankar was converted as a Tehsil in the year of 1844 by the British administration. Politics Jai Krishan Singh Rouri, (AAP) is the second term MLA from Garhshankar Assembly Constituency, elected in 2022 Punjab Assembly Elections. He was first elected as MLA in 2017 Punjab Assembly Elections. Demographics As per 2011 census, Garhshankar had a population of . Males constitute 52% of the population and females 48%. Garhshankar has an average literacy rate of 73%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 76%, and female literacy is 70%. Railways Garhshank ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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