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{{Infobox person
| name = Baba Bujha Singh
| image = Baba-bujha-singh-photo-1930.jpg
| alt =
| caption = Baba Bujha Singh in 1930.
| honorific_suffix = Ghadarite, Comrade
| birth_date = 
| birth_place =
| death_date = {{Death date|df=yes|1970|07|28}}
| death_place = [[Phillaur]], [[Punjab, India|Punjab]], India
| death_cause = Killed in fake encounter by Punjab police
| nationality = Indian
| other_names =
| occupation =
| organization = [[Ghadar Party]], [[Lal Communist Party]], [[Communist Party of India]]
| spouse =
}}
'''Baba Bujha Singh''' ({{lang-pa|ਬਾਬਾ ਬੂਝਾ ਸਿੰਘ}}) (died July 28, 1970) was an Indian revolutionary leader. He was an activist of the [[Ghadar Party]] and later became a key leader of the [[Lal Communist Party]].<ref>Judge, [https://books.google.com/books?id=HvYpVtBXw5kC&pg=PA78 p. 78]</ref> Singh later became a symbol of the [[Naxalite]] movement in [[Punjab, India|Punjab]].<ref>Judge, [https://books.google.com/books?id=HvYpVtBXw5kC&pg=PA63 p. 63]</ref>

He was one of the leading organizers of the Ghadar Party in [[Argentina]]. Baba Bujha Singh returned to India via [[Moscow]].<ref>Singh, Jaspal. ''[http://www.panjab.org.uk/english/histGPty.html History of the Ghadar Movement]''</ref><ref name="lib">''Liberation''. ''[http://sanhati.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/opt_3_11and12_4_1and2_liberation_september_december_1970.pdf Revolutionary Armed Peasant Struggle Forges ahead in Punjab]''. September–December 1970</ref>

Baba Bujha Singh would later join the [[Communist Party of India]]. Within the Communist Party, he was a prominent figure in the dissident faction that eventually formed the Lal Communist Party in 1948.<ref>Judge, [https://books.google.com/books?id=HvYpVtBXw5kC&pg=PA68 p. 68]</ref> After the Lal Communist Party was dissolved and largely amalgamated back into the Communist Party of India, Baba Bujha Singh became passive and did not involve himself in party politics.<ref>Judge, [https://books.google.com/books?id=HvYpVtBXw5kC&pg=PA72 p. 72]</ref>

Baba Bujha Singh deplored the positions adopted by the [[20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union]] held in 1956, labelling the congress as 'anti-communist'. He argued that the 1956 congress would eventually lead to the disintegration of the [[Soviet Union]].<ref>''The Tribune''. ''[http://www.tribuneindia.com/2009/20090225/jal.htm Seminar on ‘Baba Bujha Singh’]''</ref>

He resumed political activism in the wake of the 1967 [[Naxalbari uprising]]. Baba Bujha Singh began contacting leftwing dissidents inside the [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]], urging them to rebel against the leadership of the party.<ref>Judge, [https://books.google.com/books?id=HvYpVtBXw5kC&pg=PA74 p. 74]</ref>

Baba Bujha Singh was arrested on July 28, 1970 and killed in a fake police encounter near [[Phillaur]].<ref name="lib"/><ref name="tri"/><ref>''Liberation''. ''[http://www.cpiml.org/liberation/year_2007/April/inquilab_zindabad.html Inquilab Zindabad: The Indian Revolutionary Movement and Bhagat Singh]''</ref>

==Legacy==
After his death, Baba Bujha Singh became an icon of the Naxalite movement in Punjab. There are references to him in Punjabi literature, for example the poet [[Shiv Kumar Batalvi]] wrote the poem ''Budhe Rukh Nu Fansi'' in his honour. In 2010, Bakhshinder a journalist turned script writer and film maker started the production of a feature film titled ''Baba Inqlab Singh'', on Baba Bujha Singh's life.<ref name="tri">''The Tribune''. ''[http://www.tribuneindia.com/2010/20100802/punjab.htm Baba Bujha Singh to come alive on reel]''</ref>

The Punjab state headquarters of the [[Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation]] in [[Mansa, Punjab|Mansa]] is known as Baba Bujha Singh Bhavan.<ref>''Liberation''. ''[http://www.cpiml.org/liberation/year_2004/March/update.htm Movement for a National Law for Agri-Labourers]''</ref>

==References==
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==Bibliography==
*Judge, Paramjit S. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=HvYpVtBXw5kC&pg=PA74 Insurrection to Agitation: The Naxalite Movement in Punjab]''. Bombay: Popular Prakashan, 1992
*Sidhu, Ajmer ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=Vin5KbaJoh4C&printsec=frontcover&dq=Baba+Bujha+Singh+An+Untold+Story&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CB0Q6AEwAGoVChMI6IO63uKUxgIVBbC8Ch3_IwDt#v=onepage&q=Baba%20Bujha%20Singh%20An%20Untold%20Story&f=false From Ghadar to Naxalbari-Baba Bujha Singh: An Untold Story]'' Online Punjabi Book Store, {{ISBN|9788179824023}}

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