Sant Harchand Singh Longowal (2 January 1932 - 20 August 1985) was the President of the Akali Dal during the Punjab insurgency of the 1980s. He had signed the Punjab accord, also known as the Rajiv-Longowal Accord along with Rajiv Gandhi on 24 July 1985. Aug 20, 2015 11:08 AM IST Gian Singh Leel, 53, who was awarded a death sentence - that was later converted into life imprisonment for 16 years - for having assassinated former SAD president Sant.
Sant Harchand Singh Longowal
…moderate Sikh leaders, such as Harchand Singh Longowal, who was elected president of the Shiromani Akali Dal (Supreme Akali Party) in 1980, unsuccessfully attempted to avert civil war by seeking to negotiate a settlement of Sikh demands with New Delhi's Congress Party leaders. Extremists like Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale won the… Read More Sant Harchand Singh Longowal was the President of the Akali Dal during the Punjab insurgency of the 1980s. He had signed the Punjab accord, also known as the Rajiv-Longowal Accord along with Rajiv Gandhi on 24 July 1985. The government accepted most of the demands of Akali Dal who in turn agreed to withdraw their agitation. Less than a month after signing the Punjab accord, Sant Longowal was. Harchand Singh Longowal was born in the village from which he takes his name, Longowal, in 1928. The village is in the district of Sangrur in southern Punjab, one of the poorer sections of the. Born on January 2, 1932 in Sangrur's backward Gadarhiani village, Harchand Singh was the youngest of four sons of a simple God-fearing farmer Mansa Singh. While his brothers helped till the fields, the quiet Harchand immersed himself in kirtan and religious discourses.
Sant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale and Sant Harchand Singh Longowal
Aug. 21, 1985 12 AM PT From Times Wire Services NEW DELHI — Sikh terrorists assassinated top Sikh political leader Harchand Singh Longowal on Tuesday, less than a month after he signed an accord. The Rajiv-Longowal Accord was an accord signed by Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and the Akali leader, Harchand Singh Longowal, on 24 July 1985. The government accepted the demands of Shiromani Akali Dal, which, in turn, agreed to withdraw its agitation. Shortly after three o'clock in the afternoon on Tuesday, August 20, Sant Harchand Singh Longowal, President of the Akali Dal reached Sherpur, a large village about 90 km beyond Patiala in the rich paddy-growing district of Sangrur. I and all these persons, who are under your custody, belong to Sant Harchand Singh Longowal. We are non-violent people, [have] nothing to do with the armed struggle, we are here, just as a part.
संत Harchand Singh Longowal की बरसी पर उनके परिवार को किया गया अनदेखा
The slaying of the political leader, Harchand Singh Longowal, who was president of the mainstream Sikh party, Akali Dal, came less than a month after he had signed an accord with Prime Minister. Very few people in the West would be familiar with name of Harchand Singh Longowal, a liberal Sikh saint who was killed by the supporters of Khalistan—the imaginary theocratic Sikh homeland in.
Amid speculation of total non-cooperation, a week-long Punjab bandh and a call to the farmers to deposit land revenue at the Akal Takht, the diluted action programme that morcha dictator Sant Harchand Singh Longowal announced to newsmen on January 27 certainly came as a surprise. The governments of the neighboring states of Haryana and Himachal also shut their offices and institutions to express sorrow over the death of the Sikh leader, Harchand Singh Longowal, who was.
ਅਕਾਲੀ ਦਲ 'ਤੇ ਦੋ ਦਹਾਕਿਆਂ ਤੱਕ ਰਾਜ ਕਰਨ ਵਾਲੇ ਵੱਡੇ ਬਾਦਲ ਨੂੰ 'ਅਪਣਿਆਂ' ਨੇ ਹਰਾਇਆ
Sant Harchand Singh Longowal was the leader of one faction of the Akali Dal party in the early 1980s. The Akali Dal is the main Sikh political party in Punjab. Beginning in late 1981, Sikh agitation for an autonomous state in the Punjab led to a series of clashes between Sikh demonstrators and the police. Control of the movement passed from. Pashaura Singh Publisher: Oxford University Press Published online: 2019 Current Online Version: 2019 eISBN: 9780191831874. Read More. Highlight search term. Print; Save; Cite; Share This. Subscriber sign in. You could not be signed in, please check and try again.. Harchand Singh Longowal (1932-85).
