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- He hailed from a poor family from Jalandhar District,
Punjab, and during his school years, he fought against
caste-based meal segregation system.
- During the Second World War he was sent to Singapore,
and became a 2nd Lieutenant in the British Army.
- He came to join the Indian National Army.
- He was arrested during the Manipur campaign of the INA.
- He was jailed until 1948.
- After his release from jail, he eventually became
president of the Punjab unit of the AIAWU, the rural workers
front of CPI(M).
- He was the joint secretary of the All India Agricultural
Workers Union (AIAWU) 1982-1992 and vice president of the
organisation 1992-2003.
- He was a member of the Punjab State Committee of the
Communist Party of India (Marxist) until 2004.
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