Sardar Niranjan Singh Talib (1901–1976), was a journalist, an independence activist, revolutionary and influential leader of

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leader and also served as Punjab Pradesh Congress Chief. He was a noted

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and joined the

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on call of

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in 1920. He was editor of nationalist daily Punjabi newspaper ''Desh Darpan'', which was once published from

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. Further, he was also a close associate of

Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Subhas Chandra Bose ( ; 23 January 1897 – 18 August 1945 * * * * * * * * *) was an Indian nationalist whose defiance of British authority in India made him a hero among Indians, but his wartime alliances with Nazi Germany and Imperi ...

and at one point of time associated closely with

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as many sources claim, he drove the car, in which Netaji escaped from his house arrest in Calcutta. Before independence, he spent around 10 years in total in various jails in British India. Earlier he served as personal aide of Maharaja of Nabha,

Ripudaman Singh Maharaja Ripudaman Singh (4 March 1883 – 12 December 1942), later known as Sardar Gurcharan Singh, was the Maharaja of Nabha State from 1911 to 1928, when he was deposed by the British. He later became an Indian revolutionary. Early life R ...

, till the King was deposed. After independence served as Minister in Punjab Government as Public Works Department minister and also Head of Capital Project, Public Health, Engineering and Housing, which founded

Chandigarh Chandigarh () is a planned city in India. Chandigarh is bordered by the state of Punjab to the west and the south, and by the state of Haryana to the east. It constitutes the bulk of the Chandigarh Capital Region or Greater Chandigarh, which al ...

as newly developed capital city. In 1962 he won election from Chandigarh, as a Congress party candidate. He served as member of

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from Punjab for the years 1974 till his death in 1976.

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