Comrade Achhar Singh Chhina
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2 October 1899 Amritsar, Punjab, India |
| Died | 11 March 1981 (aged 81) Amritsar, Punjab, India |
| Occupation | Politician, Activist |
| Comrade Achhar Singh Chhina Sr. Sec. School |
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Comrade Achhar Singh Chhina (1899–1981) was an Indian communist politician and independence activist. He served as a MLA in the Punjab Legislative Assembly for two terms. In 1962 he contested Member Parliament (MP) election from Taran Taran and defeated by 1990 votes.
He was born at village Harsha Chhina, Tehsil Ajnala, Amritsar, Punjab, India. Achhar Singh Chhina did his basic studies from Khalsa College Amritsar where he played a pivotal role along with Pratap Singh Kairon former Chief Minister of Punjab. In 1920–1921, the students and teachers of the college registered their protest against the British rule by boycotting the visit of the Prince of Wales to the college.
In 1921 Comrade Chhina and Pratap Singh Kairon went to the United States for further studies. Both joined Berkeley University, California to do Masters in Economics. The same year he joined the Gadar Party in San Francisco and got his first lesson in national politics.
In 1932 he left the United States and went to the Soviet Union for further studies on socialism. He returned to India in 1936 and was arrested at Lahore in the same year, and was detained in Lahore Fort for two months.
In 1937 British Government ordered Comrade Achhar Singh Chhina to live in his own village (curfew) for the whole year. In March 1938, on completion of his curfew period the Communist Party of India (CPI) organised a conference on 13 March at Fatehwal village Amritsar, to be headed by Comrade Achhar Singh Chhina and Mohan Singh Batth "and addressed by Gopi Chand Bhargava, Sohan Singh Josh and Begum Fatima. The goondas of Mir Maqbool, the local landlord and parliamentary secretary of the Unionist ministry, disrupted the conference and destroyed the stage. Achhar Singh Chhina and his associates arrived on the scene and held the proposed meeting, despite the impending threat. After Chhina left for Amritsar, Goondas attacked the people who were dispersing. When people retaliated, two attackers were killed, after being pushed down from a roof". Police registered a criminal Case against Comrade Achhar Singh Chhina and Joginder Singh Chhina along with other 47 persons under section 302 IPC. This case was highlighted throughout country and defence appointed a committee to fight a case. The committee was headed by Jawaharlal Nehru and Dr Saifuddin Kitchlew, the Congress leader and Karam Singh Mann, both lawyers, were actively involved in the defence. Police forced Mr. Ram Lal, a police constable, to give false statement in the court that at the time of murder Mr. Chhina was the main person who attacked the victim; however, he refused to give this statement in the court.
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