Bhai Chanda Singh

Bhai Chanda Singh (1885 - 1921) was born on 9 Sawan 1942 sambat (22 July, 1885). He was the son of Bhai Hukam Singh and Mata Nand Kaur, a peasant couple of village Nizampur, in Amritsar. The family shifted westward to Chakk No. 38 Nizampur Deva Singhvala, in a newly colonized district. As he grew up, Chanda Singh, was influenced by the current of SIKH reformation then sweeping the Punjab. When a call came for a shaheedi jatha, martyrs` column, to proceed to Delhi to rebuild the demolished wall of Gurdwara Rikabganj, Chanda Singh registered himself as a volunteer. He also attended the Dharovali conference on 13 October 1920. As Bhai Lachhman Singh`SJ`atAa bound for Nankana Sahib was passing by his village on 19 February 1921, Bhai Chanda Singh along with his brother, Ganga Singh, joined it, and fell a martyr the following morning in Gurdwara Janam Asthan.

References

1. Shamsher, Gurbakhsh Singh. ShahidiJivan. Nankana Sahib, 1938