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| name = Gurbachan Singh Manochahal<br />
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| native_name = {{Lang|pa|ਗੁਰਬਚਨ ਸਿੰਘ ਮਾਨੋਚਾਹਲ}}<br />
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| office1 = [[Jathedar of the Akal Takht]]<br />
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| predecessor1 = Gurdev Singh Kaunke<br />
| successor1 = Darshan Singh<br />
| birth_name = Gurbachan Singh<br />
| birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1954|06|06}}<br />
| birth_place = Manochahal, [[Tarn Taran District|Tarn Taran]], [[Punjab (region)|Panjab]]<br />
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1993|02|28|1954|06|06}}<br />
| death_place = Rataul, [[Tarn Taran District|Tarn Taran]], [[Punjab (region)|Panjab]]<br />
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| term_start1 = 27 April 1986<br />
| term_end1 = 26 January 1987<br />
| known_for = Founder of [[Bhindranwala Tigers Force of Khalistan]]<br />
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'''Gurbachan Singh Manochahal''' was a Sikh extremist militant, who founded the [[Bhindranwala Tigers Force of Khalistan|Bhindranwale Tiger Force of Khalistan]] in 1984.<ref><br />
{{cite book<br />
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DnVPz-sG_64C&q=gurbachan+singh+manochahal+Jujharu&pg=PA37<br />
|title=Kharku lehar in Punjab<br />
|publisher=Gyan Books<br />
|date=1 January 2000<br />
|page=412 pages<br />
|first1=Satyapal<br />
|last1=Dang<br />
|first2=Ravi M.<br />
|last2=Bakaya<br />
|isbn=9788121206594<br />
}}</ref><ref><br />
{{cite book<br />
|last=Mahmood|first=Cynthia Keppley<br />
|year=1996<br />
|title=Fighting for Faith and Nation<br />
|series=Series in Contemporary Ethnography<br />
|publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press<br />
|page=159ff<br />
|isbn=9780812215922<br />
}}</ref><br />
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==Early life==<br />
Gurbachan Singh was born on 6 June 1954 in the village Manochahal, [[Tarn Taran district]] in the Indian state of [[Punjab, India|Punjab]] to S. Atma Singh and Gurmej Kaur. He served in the Indian Army during his youth.<br />
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Manochahal was shot in the arm during the [[1978 Sikh–Nirankari clashes]]. After this incident, he had maintained a relationship with [[Damdami Taksal]] and became acquainted with other members of the organization, such as [[Amrik Singh]] and [[Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale]].<br />
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==Insurgency==<br />
{{sfn|Van Dyke|2009|p=990}} Manochahal led a resolution at the [[Sarbat Khalsa#Significant Gurmatas|1986 Sarbat Khalsa]] to declare the resolve of a separate Sikh homeland and also formed a Panthic committee which would lead Sikhs per this resolution.{{Citation needed|date=July 2018}}<br />
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In 1992, a separate Panthic committee headed by Dr. Sohan Singh was formed. It called for the boycott of the [[1992 Punjab Legislative Assembly election]]. Elections resulted in a Congress Government under [[Beant Singh (chief minister)|Beant Singh]] of the [[Indian National Congress|Congress Party]]. The formation of this committee undermined the influence of Manochahal who was criticized for his support for political participation and led to a divide between the armed groups within Punjab.{{Citation needed|date=July 2018}}<br />
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Per Maloy Krishna Dhar, a former Joint Director, Intelligence Bureau, India, he was given the task to negotiate with Gurbachan Singh Manochahal. He contacted Manochahal through a journalist source, was blindfolded and taken a few hundred kilometres from Amritsar to meet with him where he secretly held negotiations for three hours before he was blindfolded again and transported back.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Old-men-and-their-Official-secrets/articleshow/1951335.cms|title=Old men and their Official secrets - Times of India|website=[[The Times of India]] |access-date=6 February 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170211092642/http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Old-men-and-their-Official-secrets/articleshow/1951335.cms|archive-date=11 February 2017|url-status=live|df=dmy-all}}</ref><br />
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<ref>{{cite web|url=http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/india-today-40th-anniversary-the-rajiv-gandhi-years-shekhar-gupta/1/543076.html|title=The Rajiv Gandhi years|website=India Today|access-date=6 February 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170206190125/http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/india-today-40th-anniversary-the-rajiv-gandhi-years-shekhar-gupta/1/543076.html|archive-date=6 February 2017|url-status=live|df=dmy-all}}</ref><br />
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==Death==<br />
Manochahal carried a [[Bounty (reward)|bounty]] of {{INR}}30 [[lakh]] on his head. He was killed in a [[Encounter killings by police|police encounter]] on 1 March 1993 by [[Punjab Police (India)|Punjab Police]]. Manochahal escaped from the police's [[Dragnet (policing)|dragnet]] on 27 February in Bagrian village before the police cornered him in the nearby Rataul village the following day. He was armed with a [[machine gun]] and After a heavy firefight, he was killed. The chief of the Punjab Police, [[Kanwar Pal Singh Gill]] later proclaimed, "Now I can say that we have finished militancy in Punjab."<ref>{{cite news |title=Indian police kill top Sikh guerilla |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=-QwxAAAAIBAJ&sjid=IOEFAAAAIBAJ&dq=bhindranwala%20tigers%20force%20of%20khalistan&pg=1778%2C127110 |newspaper=[[The Daily Gazette]] |page=16 |date=1 March 1993}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Manochahal killed in encounter |newspaper=[[The Indian Express]] |date=1 March 1993 |page=1}}</ref><br />
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==Bibliography==<br />
*{{citation |last1=Van Dyke |first1=Virginia |title=The Khalistan Movement in Punjab, India, and the Post-Militancy Era: Structural Change and New Political Compulsions |journal=Asian Survey |volume=49 |issue=6 |date=2009 |pages=975–997 |doi=10.1525/as.2009.49.6.975 }} https://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Gurbachan_Singh_Manochal<br />
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