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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]
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 ...
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".
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.
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]
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Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale (1947–1984), religious leader; Jarnail Singh (footballer) (1936–2000), captain of the India national football team from 1965 to 1967; Jarnail Singh (referee) (born 1962), retired English association football referee of Indian descent; Jarnail Singh (physician) (1953–2021), Singaporean physician specialised in ...