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Harchand Singh Longowal (2 January 1932 – 20 August 1985) was the President of the Akali Dal during the Punjab insurgency of the 1980. He had signed the Punjab accord, also known as the Rajiv-Longowal Accord along with Rajiv Gandhi on 24 July 1985.
Jan 6, 2014 · A far cry indeed, but that was the transformation wrought by fate in the life of Sant Harchand Singh Longowal, a man who in his last days came to symbolise the hope that Punjab and its people would find peace.
Gian Singh Leel, 53, who was awarded a death sentence - that was later converted into life imprisonment for 16 years - for having assassinated former SAD president Sant Harchand Singh...
The Rajiv–Longowal Accord was an accord signed by Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and the Akali leader, Harchand Singh Longowal, on 24 July 1985. The government accepted the demands of Shiromani Akali Dal, which, in turn, agreed to withdraw its agitation.
Jan 6, 2014 · Shortly after three o'clock in the afternoon on Tuesday, August 20, Sant Harchand Singh Longowal, President of the Akali Dal reached Sherpur, a large village about 90 km beyond Patiala in the rich paddy-growing district of Sangrur.
Sant Harchand Singh Longowal paid for his daring to believe that an effort to have pious dreams fulfilled is always worth dying for. He signed an accord with Rajiv Gandhi, the then PM . The...
…moderate Sikh leaders, such as Harchand Singh Longowal, who was elected president of the Shiromani Akali Dal (Supreme Akali Party) in 1980, unsuccessfully attempted to avert civil war by seeking to negotiate a settlement of Sikh demands with New Delhi’s Congress Party leaders.
Jun 10, 2013 · Almost three decades after Operation Blue Star — the army operation that cleared the Golden temple complex in Amritsar of Sikh militants in 1984 — a journalist has spoken to some of the surviving...
Jul 28, 1985 · When Harchand Singh Longowal placed his signature alongside that of Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi on Wednesday on the accord to end the three-year Sikh confrontation with the Indian Government,...
Jan 6, 2014 · Sant Harchand Singh Longowal's assassination ushered in new uncertainties for Punjab. Even as the Government resolutely stuck to calling elections, the twin crises of renewed terrorism and a divided Akali leadership cast an ominous shadow over the state's future.
