''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
Amritsar district is one of the twenty three districts that make up the Indian state of Punjab. Located in the Majha region of Punjab, the city of Amritsar is the headquarters of this district.
As of 2011, it is the second most populous distr ...
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 Bharat Sabha', a left-wing Indian association that sought to instigate revolution against the British Raj by gathering together workers and peasant youths. He turned it into a district-wide youth moment in Amritsar.
While at Amritsar he was held and tortured at Amritsar's interrogation center, but released in 1975.
Approximately two years before his death, Mann married Paramjit Kaur, with whom he had a daughter. She was one week old when he was murdered while on his way to his village, Chinna Bagga, in Amritsar.
The letter
Baldev Singh Mann was killed while visiting his family. He wrote a letter to his daughter shortly before his death, stating "I am struggling for the birth of a social order in which the shackles that enslave human beings are broken to bits, where the oppressed can heave a sigh of relief".
References
See also
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Arjan Singh Mastana
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Darshan Singh Canadian
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Canada
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Deepak Dhawan
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Jaimal Singh Padda
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Nidhan Singh Gudhan
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Pash
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Teja Singh Swatantar
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Punjab insurgency
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Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) New Democracy
Communist Party of India (CPI) is the oldest Marxist–Leninist communist party in India and one of the nine national parties in the country. The CPI was founded in modern-day Kanpur (formerly known as Cawnpore) on 26 December 1925.
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1952 births
1986 deaths
Punjabi people
Indian Sikhs