Sant Harchand Singh Longowal was born 2 January 1932, a couple of modest means living in Gidariani, a village then in the princely state of Patiala, but now a part of Sangrur district of Punjab (India). Under the tutelage of Sant Jodh Singh at the seminary in nearby Maujo, he studied Sikh theology and Sikh texts and practised Sikh music. As his teacher was also a member of the Akali movement, it is likely that young Harchand Singh also imbibed the spirit of political activism at that time.
Leaving Maujo at the age of twenty-one, Harchand Singh served as scripture-reader and custodian at the village gurdwara at Kiron Kalan, moving the following year to Longowal, a small town 16 kilometers south-west of Sangrur. There, he raised a gurdwara to the memory of celebrated eighteenth-century scholar and martyr, Bhai Mani Singh. In 1962, Harchand Singh was named head of the important historical shrine at Damdama Sahib (Talvandi Sabo), but he took with him the suffix "Longowal" which remained with him for the rest of his life. He affectionately known as "Sant Ji"
Beginnings of Political Activism
Sant Longowal's life of political activism began in June 1964, when he led a demonstration for Sikh rights at the historic site of Paonta Sahib in the present-day state of Himachal Pradesh.
During the Central Government's ongoing campaign to discredit the Sikhs and paint them as seditious and bad for the country, Sant Longowal was several times called on to explain his vision of the aspirations of Sikhs in India: "Let me make it clear once and for all that the Sikhs have no designs to get away from India in any manner. What they want simply is that they should be allowed to live in India as Sikhs, free from all direct and indirect interference and tampering with their religious way of life. Undoubtedly the Sikhs have the same nationality as other Indians." 11/10/82 .
Finally, in March 1985, Sant Harchand Singh Longowal met the Prime Minister in Delhi and on July 23, 1985 signed an eleven-point memorandum .
1.affirmation that merit shall remain the sole criterion for recruitment into the army; 3) the jurisdiction of the enquiry into the November killings in Delhi to be extended to cover the havoc in Bokaro and Kanpur as well; 4) all those discharged from the army to be rehabilitated and provided gainful employment; 5) the government's consideration of the formulation of a bill to cover the administration of Gurdwaras throughout India; 6) withdrawal of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act from Punjab except in cases of waging war and hijacking; 7) transfer of the capital Chandigarh to Punjab and simultaneous transfer of territory in lieu to the state of Haryana on January 26, 1986; 8) submission of the Anandpur Sahib Resolution on Centre-State relations to the Sarkaria Commission for study and evaluation; 9) referral of the claims of Punjab and Haryana regarding their shares of river waters to a Supreme Court judges and a binding decision to be arrived at within six months; 10) Prime Minister to write all Chief Ministers regarding protection of minority interests; 11) the possibility of the Central Government taking some steps to promote usage of the Punjabi language. [13]
Death
Less than a month after signing the Punjab accord, Sant Harchand Singh Longowal was shot and killed at the gurdwara in village Sherpur, not far from Longowal, Punjab. With his death, the date of the supposed transfer of the capital to Punjab came and went with no effect. Soon, the credibility and goodwill of the agreement lay in ruins.
1984 Ghallooghaaraa
1. Kalia, D. R. Sant Harchand Singh Longowal, 1932-1985: A Martyr for Peace (1985), p.50,
2.Sujit Singh Gandhi, "Harchand Singh Longowal, Sant", The Encyclopedia of Sikhism, ed. Harbans Singh, Vol. II, Patiala, India, Punjabi University, 1996, p. 226.
3. Harji Malik, "The Politics of Alienation," Punjab - The Fatal Miscalculation: Perspectives on Unprincipled Politics, eds. Patwant Singh and Harji Malik, New Delhi, Patwant Singh, 1984, pp. 36, 38-39; Khushwant Singh, A History of the Sikhs, Volume II: 1839-2004, New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2004, p. 355.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harchand_Singh_Longowal
Dead edifices like Sant Ji Longowal , do not negate the evil criminal activities of a particular caste who have dust binned humans ,especially women and children for their greed and have again collaborated with Bangladeshi Jhuggis near Kingsway Camp Gurudwara Delhi .Sants only serve to remind of a dead cultural ethos that formed a part of the heinous brigade.
On January 6, 2008 the highest Sikh temporal seat (Akal Takhat, Amritsar) declared Kehar Singh and other assassins of former prime minister Indira Gandhi martyrs of Sikhism. SGPC also paid homage to both Satwant Singh and Kehar Singh and called them "martyrs of Sikh nation". Shiromani Akali Dal observed their death anniversary as 'martyrdom' on October 31 2008
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