Shabeg Singh

[4] Later, Singh joined Sikh movement for rights in Punjab, named Dharam Yudh Morcha.

[citation needed] Shabeg was a descendant of Mehtab Singh who killed Massa Ranghar after he captured the Golden Temple.

[7] In 1942, an officer-selection team visiting Lahore colleges recruited Singh to the British Indian Army officers cadre.

He was unofficially sent for service in the 1947 Indo-Pakistan War in Kashmir along with Maharaja Yadavindra Singh's Akal Regiment.

[11] With his leadership qualities and use of daredevil tactics he was greatly successful in handling the counter-insurgency operations in that region and crushed the Naga Insurgency, for the next four years there were no terrorist incidents.

[16] In 1975 Shabeg Singh was asked by Indira Gandhi to suppress the Bihar Movement through harsh measures and arrest Jayaprakash Narayan.

[17] Shabeg Singh wrote a letter back stating that the Indian Army should not be involved in political matters.

[5][13] Two charge sheets in an anti-corruption court were brought against him in Lucknow by India's Central Bureau of Investigation.

[13] Singh had said that he had joined Bhindranwale due to the alleged humiliation he had received, which included being stripped of his pension.

[22] Singh and his military expertise is credited with the creation of effective defences of the temple complex that made the possibility of a commando operation on foot impossible.

The Government is deliberately terming him a traitor because his brand of politics probably doesn't suit them.At the later stages of the operation, Singh was killed in firing between the Akal Takht and Darshani Ḍeorhi.

Major General Shabeg Singh, Hero of Bangladesh War, Charcoal on Paper Portrait by Amitabh Mitra