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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.
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.
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.
Panth Rattan Shiri Gurcharan Singh Tohra was the president of Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee, a Sikh body in charge of controlling Gurdwara. He died...
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...
Dec 15, 1984 · But for the last 14 years SGPC politics has been completely dominated by Gurcharan Singh Tohra, one of the shrewdest Sikh politicians of all times. He has had an uninterrupted 14-year run as the SGPC president and has successfully manipulated the Akali Dal, which draws its sustenance from the gurudwaras that he controls.
Dec 31, 1986 · Gurcharan Singh Tohra returned last fortnight to Punjab's centre stage as the newly-elected president of the Shiromani Gurudwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) and gained the elusive political legitimacy he had been seeking.
Oct 6, 2010 · The President of Shrimani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC), S. Gurcharan Singh Tohra, was inside Sri Darbar Sahib Complex when the army action took place. Sant Harchand Singh Longowal was captured along with about 1700 Singhs.
