He was general secretary of the Punjab Provincial Congress Committee from 1941 to 1946, a period of acute crisis in the freedom struggle. In 1937, he entered the Punjab Legislative Assembly as an Akali nominee, defeating the Congress candidate, Baba Gurdit Singh of Sarhali. As a Congress worker he was jailed in 1932 for five years for participating in the Civil Disobedience movement. He was also a member of the Indian National Congress, the main all India party associated with the independence movement. He joined the Shiromani Akali Dal, party of Sikh activists. But he soon entered active politics and closed down the paper. Returning to India in 1929, Partap Singh started from Amritsar a weekly paper in English, The New Era, the First issue appearing on 13 April 1931. Partap Singh evolved a pragmatic, determined approach to political, economic and social issues. He believed that affluence on farms was within reach of the Punjabi villager only if he had an independent and vital government. Mile upon mile of oranges, grapes and peaches he saw in California planted in his mind the vision of a fruitladen Punjab. Partap Singh was deeply influenced by the American way of life. He simultaneously concerned himself with the problems of Indian freedom and worked with groups determined to advance independence, if necessary by revolutionary activity. He eventually took a Master`s degree in political science at the University of Michigan. There he had to earn his own way by working on farms and in factories. When still a student of the Khalsa College at Amritsar, Partap Singh left home for the United States of America. His father Nihal Singh, who had been active in the Singh Sabha movement, was a pioneer of women`s education and had founded in his village a Sikh school for girls.
political leader of wide influence and chief minister of the Punjab from 1956 to 1964, was born on 1 October 1901 in the village of Kairon, in Amritsar district of the Punjab, in a farming family of modest means. In 2013, targetted by Left Wing Extremist organisation in Chhattisgarh, Congress leaders Vidya Charan Shukla and Mahendra Karma along with others lost their lives in the deadly attack.įormer Chief Minister of Punjab Partap Singh Kairon was killed after he stepped down from the chair and while travelling on GT Road on Februin Sonepat when he was on way from Delhi to Chandigarh.PARTAP SINGH KAIRON (1901-1965). The blast claimed the lives of 17 others, including Beant Singh who was accompanied by his close friend Ranjodh Singh Mann on the day of assassination. He was killed at the secretariat complex in Chandigarh. Not just this, but Punjab Chief Minister Beant Singh was also gunned down by the Sikh terrorists in 1995. Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), Dhanu operative of the organisation approached him and bent down to touch his feet, leading to an explosion in an RDX-laden belt.īesides Rajiv Gandhi, 14 others were also killed in the blast. The attack on Gandhi was made by Thenmozhi Rajaratnam, also known as Dhanu. He was killed by suicide bombers on May 21. Similarly, her son and former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated by the LTTE terrorist in 1991 during the poll campaign in Sri Perumbudur in Tamil Nadu. The guards were upset after the Army carried out the operation. Indira Gandhi, who was the Prime Minister in 1984, was shot by her bodyguards Beant Singh Satwant Singh and others on October 31 at her residence following Operation Blue Star at Golden Temple in Amritsar by removing Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale and his armed supporters from the premises which is a sacred site of the Sikh religion. Godse, who held Gandhi responsible for the partition, was later tried in the court and hanged.
Known as "Father of the Nation' Mahatma Gandhi who played a significant role in the country's freedom movement fell to the bullets of Nathuram Godse on January 30, 1948. Minister Shinzo Abe, for many in India it brought back memories of leaders who suffered a similar fate like Mahatma Gandhi who was assassinated in 1948, Indira Gandhi in 1984, and Rajiv Gandhi in 1991. New Delhi, July 8 (IANS) As the world mourns the assassination of former Japanese Prime
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