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SARDUL SINGH CAVEESHAR
(Freedom Fighter)
A
front-ranking freedom fighter, Sardul Singh Caveeshar was born
at Amritsar in 1886. He had his degree in post-graduate
studies from the Panjab University, Lahore in 1909. During the
period of his studies he proved himself a first class football
and Cricket
player.
Sardul
Singh began his public career with the bringing out of the
Sikh Review in 1913 at Delhi. When agitation started over the
demolition of a portion of the outer wall of Gurudwara Rikab
Ganj, Delhi, he played a leading role in it with the result
that he was extorted from Delhi for his ‘objectionable’
activities.
Thereafter,
he shifted to Lahore and started a newspaper, called the New
Herald. From the very foundation of the All-India Sikh League
in 1919, he was among its most active members and was elected
its Secretary in 1920 and its President the following year.
The same year, in recognition of his services to the national
cause, he was elected Secretary of the Punjab Provincial
Congress Committee. During the period 1921 to 1922 he actively
participated in the non-cooperation movement and the Akali
morchas on account of which he was arrested and sentenced to
transportation for 5 years. But he did not have to complete
the whole term and released after a year
only.
In
1925 Sardul Singh presided over the Punjab Provincial
Conference. In 1926 he resigned the membership of all Sikh
organizations in order to devote himself wholly to the
national cause. In 1928 he was elected member of the Congress
Working Committee. This position he held for several years
till he left the Congress for good. He acted as President of
Indian Nation Congress in 1932 and 1933. He was sentenced four
times in connection with the Civil Disobedience
movement.
Source: chakdephate.com
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