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Panth Rattan Shiri Gurcharan Singh Tohra (24 September 1924 – 1 April 2004) was a president of Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC), a Sikh body in charge of controlling Gurdwara (Sikh places of worship). He died of a heart attack in New Delhi on 1 April 2004 at the age of 79.
Jun 5, 2009 · Gurcharan Singh Tohra (24 September 1924 - 1 April 2004), president of SGPC ( Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee ), the Sikh body in charge of controlling Gurdwaras (Sikh places of worship), died of a heart attack in New Delhi on 1 April, 2004 at the age of 79.
4 days ago · After the-then Punjab chief minister and SAD president, Parkash Singh Badal, had sparred with Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) president Gurcharan Singh Tohra, Badal’s loyalist ...
Jul 4, 2023 · PATIALA: As several Sikh groups and intellectuals get ready to mark the 11th death anniversary of Gurcharan Singh Tohra on Wednesday, not many are aware that the Sikh leader had pledged solidarity with Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, a Nobel Prize Laureate in literature whose novels chronicled the daily horrors of life in Soviet gulags.
Apr 1, 2004 · Ashes of late Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee President Gurcharan Singh Tohra were today collected and immersed in the Bhakra Canal, one km from his Tohra village in this district, by...
Apr 2, 2004 · Gurcharan Singh Tohra, a top Indian Sikh leader, died Thursday in a New Delhi hospital after having a heart attack. He was 80. Mr. Tohra died hours after being airlifted to New Delhi from the...
Badal Senior accompanied by Gurcharan Singh Tohra, the then head of the gurdwara body Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC), addressed the press and called the alliance with BJP a...
In middle of 1998, Parkash Singh Badal had sparred with Tohra, with Badal's loyalist executive members in SGPC sacking Akal Takht jathedar Bhai Ranjit Singh. Then, after Tohra was shoved out ...
Dec 16, 2022 · The role he played in Sikh political affairs in post partition India. I remember that in the first Amrit parchar held in Espanola, USA in 1972. S. Gurcharan Singh Tohra the then President of SGPC was one of the five chosen people who performed the most sacred religious ceremony.
GURCHARAN SINGH TOHRA was an elder of the Sikh community in every sense. Not only was he 27 times head of the Sikh Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee — the management committee of the key...
