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| honorific_prefix = Bhai<br />
| name = Gurjant Singh Budhsinghwala<br />
| birth_date = {{birth year|1964}}<br />
| death_date = {{dda|1992|07|29|1964|||df=yes}}<br />
| birth_place = Village Budhsinghwala, [[Faridkot district, Punjab]], India<br />
| death_place = [[Ludhiana, Punjab]], India<br />
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| nickname = Budhsinghwala<br />
| allegiance = [[Khalistan Liberation Force]]<br />
| serviceyears = 1986 - 1992<br />
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| battles = [[Insurgency in Punjab]]<br />
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'''Gurjant Singh Budhsinghwala''' (1964 - 29 July 1992) was the third chief of the [[Khalistan Liberation Force]].<br />
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==Early life and family==<br />
Gurjant Singh was born in the village of Budhsinghwala, District [[Faridkot district|Faridkot]] in 1964. He had four siblings — one sister and three brothers. He was learned, although after being tortured by the police multiple times and his grandfather being killed by Punjab Police, as he was a religious Amritdhari Sikh, he joined the KLF in 1986.<ref>{{cite book|last=Pettigrew|first=Joyce|title=The Sikhs of the Punjab: unheard voices of State and Guerilla violence|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7VBuAAAAMAAJ|access-date=19 November 2013|year=1995|publisher=Zed Books|isbn=978-1-85649-355-0}}</ref><br />
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==Participation in the Khalistan Movement==<br />
Gurjant Singh's grandfather died in 1984 when Indian Security Forces opened indiscriminate firing on his home, even though he participated in no crimes. Gurjant Singh took revenge and killed top Punjab Police officers including AS Brar and SSP Patiala.{{cn| date=November 2020}}<br />
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Budhsinghwala commanded of a faction of [[Khalistan Liberation Force]].<ref name="independent.co.uk">{{cite news| url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/death-report-exaggerated-1543102.html | work=The Independent | location=London | title=Death report exaggerated | date=1992-08-29 | access-date=2010-05-07}}</ref><br />
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''India Today'''s Volume 17 mentioned that Budhsinghwala was responsible for the killings and injury of key police officers and politicians.<ref>{{cite book|title=India Today|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9OgvAQAAIAAJ|access-date=19 November 2013|date=July 1992|publisher=Aroon Purie for Living Media India Limited}}</ref><ref name="Joshi 1993">{{cite book|last=Joshi|first=Manoj|title=Combating Terrorism in Punjab: Indian Democracy in Crisis|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-5PaAAAAMAAJ|access-date=19 November 2013|year=1993|publisher=Research Institute for the Study of Conflict and Terrorism}}</ref><br />
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==Death==<br />
Budhsinghwala was killed in a police encounter on 29 July 1992, in [[Ludhiana]], when he and other members of KLF were meeting. The firefight took several hours. Police stated that Singh was killed in the house where meeting was taking place, while some witnesses claim that he was killed in an alleyway {{convert|50|m}} away from the house. His body was not returned to his family and was secretly cremated as police feared that his body might be used as a propaganda tool.<ref name="autogenerated1">{{cite web |url=http://ihro.in/gurjant.php |title=IHRO Human Right Watch |publisher=Ihro.in |date= |access-date=2012-10-06 |archive-date=7 April 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140407073619/http://ihro.in/gurjant.php |url-status=dead }}</ref> At the time of his death, he was wanted in 37 cases of assassination.<ref name="Joshi 1993"/>{{qn|date = October 2012}}<br />
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After Budhsinghwala's death, Dr Pritam Singh Sekhon succeeded him as head of the [[Khalistan Liberation Force|KLF]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tribuneindia.com/2002/20020103/ldh1.htm |title=The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Ludhiana Stories |publisher=Tribuneindia.com |date= |access-date=2012-10-16}}</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
* [http://www.sikhstudentsfederation.com/link7/shaheed-gurjant-singh-ji.html A Life Scketch of Bhai Gurjant Singh Ji (in Punjabi Language)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210201175008/http://www.sikhstudentsfederation.com/link7/shaheed-gurjant-singh-ji.html |date=1 February 2021 }}<br />
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