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His large family of 59 relatives were hacked to death by Muslims at his birthplace Harial, Rawalpindi.
This was the price Master Tara Singh paid for saying Pakistan Murdabad & seeking Punjab from Present Day Pakistan.
Today's the Jayanti of #MasterTaraSingh, Creator Of Punjab

& another Person Who Was Misled, Humiliated & Deceived By Nehru.
The basic story of Master Tara Singh’s life was marked by constant struggles, and failures. At the time of the creation of the unilingual state of Punjab in 1966, a fight for which Master Tara Singh had suffered

much, he had to face the ignominy of being known as a turn-coat, compromiser and worse, someone who did not stand by his promises.
Master Tara Singh was born in a family of Malhotra Khatris in a village of Brahmin landlords, as Nanak Chand. On adopting the Sikh faith later in

life he was given the name Tara Singh. To this was added the appellation ‘Master’ when he took up his first job as a school teacher.
The Lucknow Pact of 1916 seemed to him like a division of spoils of office between Hindus and Muslims leaving the Sikhs to fend for themselves.

In subsequent years, his debates with the Arya Samaj ideology further sowed the seeds of a view that the Congress was not up to any good as far as the Sikhs were concerned.
In the early 1930s, Tara Singh was of the firm view that religion and politics should not be mixed.

The refusal of the Congress to condemn and reject the Communal Award of 1933 made him wonder though about the manner in which people like Nehru defined secularism and nationalist politics. In the subsequent electoral alliances with the Congress, he would take care that the

Congress did not overwhelm the Akali identity. He also took note of the indifference of the people of Punjab to the individual Satyagraha movement of 1941. Therefore, when with the 1942 Quit India Movement, the Congress tried to raise the stakes against the colonial government,

Tara Singh withdrew the Akalis from the Congress and stood in favour of support for the government.
During the Partition, Tara Singh was upset as Sikh's opinion was not considered.
It was Lord Wavell who brought Tara Singh as a lone Sikh member for Partition Discussion in Simla

Conference IRKING Nehru.
(From here on, Nehru who never wanted other person to be a leader started despising Masterji)
The sword that caught the attention of the world before Partition of the country is gathering dust in the house of Master Tara Singh, who had occupied the

Raising the slogan “Pakistan Murdabad” (Death for Pakistan) in front of Punjab Assembly, Lahore, on March 4, 1947, by brandishing this black coloured sword, which was the trademark of Masterji, earned him many enemies. The fury of the fanatical Muslims against Tara Singh was so

intense that his house in his ancestral village, Harial, in Rawalpindi district (now in Pakistan), was burnt down and 59 of his relatives hacked to death.
However, the historical weapon has yet to find a proper place in a museum. Earlier, on March 3, 1947, Master Tara Singh,

along with about 500 Sikhs, had declared “Death to Pakistan” at Lahore by holding this sword. Consequently, about 50,000 strong Muslim crowd went berserk outside and Masterji and his men narrowly escaped death.
Tara Singh wanted partition never to happen, and when it became

inevitable, he wanted Sikhs to be in Bharat and with a dominion status.
Tara Singh went for Fast Unto Death for Dominion Status, Nehru asked him to withdraw the fast and assured him giving Dominion for Sikhs.
“But after Partition, Nehru issued directions to the deputy

commissioners across the country to keep Sikhs under control and impose restrictions on them. This forced Master Tara Singh to launch the Punjabi Suba Movement.
Nehru, succeeded in scuttling that Separate Punjab demand and marginalising Tara Singh. That was a humiliation which

the Master could never overcome. Nehru had proven to be more adept at politicking than the Akalis and Master Tara Singh.
Master Tara Singh, the once sole leader of Sikhs & stamped down by Nehru passed away on 22nd November 1967.

Today the Punjab he fought for, are sleeping with the same Butchers.

#ForgottenHeroes
#VANDEMATARAM