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| name = Avtar Singh Malhotra<br>ਅਵਤਾਰ ਸਿੰਘ ਮਲਹੋਤਰਾ<br />
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| birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1917|04|18}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Rawalpindi]], [[Punjab (British India)|Punjab]], [[British Raj]] (now [[Pakistan]])<br />
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|2005|05|23|1917|04|18}}<br />
| death_place = Chandigarh, Punjab, India<br />
| occupation = [[Politician]]<br />
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'''Avtar Singh Malhotra''' ({{lang-pa|ਅਵਤਾਰ ਸਿੰਘ ਮਲਹੋਤਰਾ}}; 18 April 1917 – 23 May 2005)<ref name="tribuneindia">{{cite web|url=http://www.tribuneindia.com/2005/20050524/punjab1.htm|publisher=tribuneindia.com|title=The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Punjab – Veteran Communist leader dead, 23 May 2005. Tribune News Service |accessdate=24 February 2017}}</ref> was a Punjabi politician belonging to the [[Communist Party of India]] from Punjab, India. He is famous for his active leadership to communist and patriotic resistance in 1980's during separatist insurgency in Punjab.<ref name="google">{{cite book|title=Modern History of Punjab: A Look Back Into Ancient Peaceful Punjab Focusing Confrontation and Failures Leading to Present Punjab Problem, and a Peep Ahead : Relevant Select Documents|author1=Aggarwal, J.C.|author2=Agrawal, S.P.|date=1992|publisher=Concept Publishing Company|isbn=9788170224310|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=d-CN0Q4g-dwC&pg=PA284|page=284|accessdate=24 February 2017}}</ref><br />
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==Biography==<br />
Born on 18 April 1917, at [[Daultala]] town, in [[Rawalpindi District]], [[British Punjab]] (now in Pakistan), Mr Malhotra spent his childhood there.<br />
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After passing the MA (English) in first division in the 1940s, Mr Malhotra became a lecturer of English in a college at Rawalpindi. He joined communist movement during this period. He quit his job in 1945 and became the editor of the communist party publication weekly Jange Azadi.<br />
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==Books==<br />
*'''''The Punjab Crisis and the Way Out''''' (Communist Party Publication, 1984)<ref name="google2">{{cite web|url=https://www.google.co.in/search?tbm=bks&hl=en&q=Malhotra%2C+Avtar+Singh|title=Malhotra, Avtar Singh - Google Search|accessdate=24 February 2017}}</ref><br />
*'''''Save Punjab, Save India''''' (Communist Party Publication, 1984)<br />
*'''''Punjab Problem and Solution''''' (Communist Party Publication, 1985)<br />
*'''''What is the Communist Party?''''' (Communist Party Publication, 1986)<br />
*'''''Punjab: Martyrs of CPI : they gave their lives for communal amity and national integrity''''' (Communist Party Publication, 1988)<br />
*'''''For Indian Unity Democratise Centre-state Relations''''' (Communist Party Publication, 1991)<br />
*'''''Role of Communists in the Struggle for Linguistic States''''' (Communist Party Publication, 1986)<br />
*'''''The Nature of the Bahujan Samaj Party''''' (C. Rajeswara Rao, Avtar Singh Malhotra<br />
New Age Printing Press, 1988)<br />
*'''''History of Sirsa Town'''''<br />
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