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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.
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...
Jan 6, 2014 · Born on January 2, 1932 in Sangrur's backward Gadarhiani village, Harchand Singh was the youngest of four sons of a simple God-fearing farmer Mansa Singh. While his brothers helped till the fields, the quiet Harchand immersed himself in kirtan and religious discourses.
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.
Aug 21, 2009 · 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.
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,...
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...
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.
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.
…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.
