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Bhindranwale was born on 2 June 1947, [5]: 151 as Jarnail Singh Brar to a Jat Sikh family, in the village of Rode, [3] in Moga District (then a part of Faridkot District), [58] located in the region of Malwa. [1]
Shabeg Singh was mentioned in a speech by Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale while highlighting injustices to various Sikhs in 1983. He participated in the Amritsar Rally in the Golden Rail Morcha where over 10,000 ex-servicemen participated. [20] He joined Sikh militants, [5] where he served as Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale's military adviser. [13]
Dalbir Singh and Swaran Singh Rode are two others accused in the case. [11] Sant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, who had accused Narain of portraying the Sikh gurus as "lovers of wine and women" in his newspapers in spite of protests, [12] was implicated in the assassination, though it was the Dal Khalsa which had likely committed it. [13]
Giani Zail Singh (pronunciation ⓘ, born Jarnail Singh; 5 May 1916 – 25 December 1994 [1]) was an Indian politician from Punjab who served as the president of India from 1982 to 1987 and chief minister of Punjab. He was the first Sikh to become president.
Amrik Singh was a prominent leader of the Damdami Taksal along with Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale. He contested the 1979 Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) election, backed by Bhindranwale, but lost to Jiwan Singh Umranangal. [5] On 26 April 1982, he led a campaign to get Amritsar the status of a "holy city".
Fauja Singh died as he was being rushed to the hospital, and the cremation of Fauja Singh and the 12 other Sikhs occurred in a large ceremony attended by tens of thousands; the photos of his maimed body, with a bullet wound in his left eye, spread along with the news of the death quickly. [2] This event brought Bhindranwale to limelight in the ...
Operation Blue Star was a military operation by the Indian Armed Forces conducted between 1 and 10 June 1984 to remove Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale and other Sikh militants from the Golden Temple (Harmandir Sahib), a holy site of Sikhism, and its adjacent buildings.
Brar was born in 1934 into a Sikh Jat family. [6] [7] His family has a long legacy with the armed forces, his grandfather was Captain Hira Singh, from whom Patto Hira Singh, Moga is named after, his father was Major General Digambhar Singh Brar (1898–1997). [8] [7] His brother also served in the army at Sri Lanka. [9]