He was a state level leader of Kirti Kisan Union and the editor of Hirawal Dasta,[1][2] a revolutionary journal of the Naxalites.
On 26 September 1986, during the insurgency in Punjab, India, he was killed by Sikh militants while on his way to his village, Bagga Kalan, in Amritsar district.
[citation needed] While at Day College, he came in contact with the Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) New Democracy.
He organized young people in his village under the banner of 'Naujawan Bharat Sabha', a left-wing Indian association that sought to instigate revolution against by gathering together workers and peasant youths.
He wrote a letter to his daughter shortly before his death, stating "I am struggling for the birth of a social order in which the shackles that enslave human beings are broken to bits, where the oppressed can heave a sigh of relief".