ÿþ<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>MOHAN SI&#7748GH TU&#7770 JATHED&#256R (1915-1979)</TITLE> <style type="text/css"> .BODY { background-color: #EAF1F7; background-image: url('images/gtbh.jpg'); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment: fixed; background-position: center; color: #0066CC;} .C1{text-align: justify;color: #0066CC;FONT-size: SMALL;FONT-family: Tahoma;} .BIB{text-align: center;color: #000099;FONT-size: SMALL;FONT-family: Tahoma;} .CONT{text-align: right;color: #FF0000;FONT-size: SMALL;FONT-family: Tahoma;} </style><META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="MOHAN,SIDGH,TUZ,JATHEDR,Person,Person"> <META http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></HEAD> <BODY class="BODY" oncontextmenu="return false" ondragstart="return false" onselectstart="return false"> <FONT ALIGN="JUSTIFY" FACE="Tahoma"> <p class="C1">&#65279MOHAN SI&#7748GH TU&#7770, JATHED&#256R (1915-1979), eminent Ak&#257l&#299 politician, was born at village Tu&#7771 in Tarn T&#257ran <i>tahs&#299l</i> of Amritsar in 1915, the son of Jagat Si&#7749gh, an Ak&#257l&#299 activist of the Ak&#257l&#299 Lahir (Gurdw&#257r&#257 Reform movement) of the early 1920's and a member of the first Shiroma&#7751&#299 Gurdw&#257r&#257 Parbandhak Committee elected under the Sikh Gurdw&#257r&#257s Act, 1925. Mohan Si&#7749gh, too, as he grew up, joined the Shiroma&#7751&#299 Ak&#257l&#299 Dal and slowly ascending the ladder became a member of Shiroma&#7751&#299 Gurdw&#257r&#257 Parbandhak Committee in December 1954. He went to jail during the Punjabi S&#363b&#257 <i>morch&#257</i> (agitation) of 1955 and was again elected a member of the Shiroman&#299 Gurdw&#257r&#257 Parbandhak Committee in January 1960. In the internal conflict in the Shiroma&#7751&#299 Ak&#257l&#299 Dal leadership Jathed&#257r Mohan Si&#7749gh Tu&#7771 sided with Sant Fateh Si&#7749gh against Master T&#257r&#257 Si&#7749gh. In the general elections in 1962 he, while yet in jail, was put up as an Ak&#257l&#299 candidate for the Punjab Legislative Assembly from the Tarn T&#257ran constituency against the Congress stalwart and chief minister Part&#257p Si&#7749gh Kairo&#7749. The sitting chief minister won the seat by a bare margin of 34 votes, which outcome was cavilled at by opposition parties. Mohan Si&#7749gh emerged from this election as one of the front rank <i>jathed&#257rs</i> (leaders) of the Sant Ak&#257l&#299 Dal. He was elected a member of the Punjab Legislative Assembly in 1967 and again during the mid-term elections of 1969. After the death of Sant Fateh Si&#7749gh in 1972, <i>Jathed&#257r</i> Mohan Si&#7749gh Tu&#7771 was elected president of the Shiroma&#7751&#299 Ak&#257l&#299 Dal. In this capacity he successfully conducted the agitation against Hary&#257n&#257 government's unlawful pressure on Sikh landholders settled in that state. A second landmark was the peaceful agitation against the countrywide state of emergency declared by the Central Government headed by Prime Minister Indir&#257 G&#257ndh&#299. In March 1977, Jathed&#257r Tu&#7771 was elected to the Lok Sabh&#257, the lower house of Parliament.</p> <p class="C1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Jathed&#257r Mohan Si&#7749gh Tu&#7771 died on 30 July 1979.</p> </font> <p class="BIB"> BIBLIOGRAPHY<p class="C1"><ol class="C1"><li class="C1"> The <i> Aj&#299t </i> Jalandhar, 30 July 1984<BR> <li class="C1"> Ashok, Shamsher Si&#7749gh, <i> Shiroma&#7751&#299 Committee d&#257 Pañj&#257h S&#257l&#257 Itih&#257s </i>. Amritsar, 1982<BR> <li class="C1"> Dilg&#299r, Harjinder Si&#7749gh <i> Shiroma&#7751&#299 Ak&#257l&#299 Dal,</i> Chandigarh, 1980<BR> </ol><p class="CONT">Major Gurmukh Si&#7749gh (Retd.)<br></p><BR> </font><img src="counter.aspx" width="1px" height="1px" alt=""></HTML></BODY>