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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.
Harchand Singh Longowal was President of Akali Dal at the time of the Punjab insurgency. Born in 1928, he was assassinated in 1985 soon after signing the accord with the Rajiv Gandhi government. Called the Punjab Accord, it provided for the acceptance of all major demands of the Akali Dal.
Jan 6, 2014 · More than any of the others, it was the shattering assassination of Sant Harchand Singh Longowal last fortnight that seemed to symbolise most starkly the spectre of terrorism that stalks the land with such arrogance and destructive power.
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,...
Aug 21, 1985 · Sikh terrorists assassinated top Sikh political leader Harchand Singh Longowal on Tuesday, less than a month after he signed an accord with the government to settle the three-year Punjab crisis.
Aug 22, 1985 · The governments of the neighboring states of Haryana and Himachal also shut their offices and institutions to express sorrow over the death of the Sikh leader, Harchand Singh Longowal, who was...
