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Jalandhar, February 15
While expressing support and solidarity with the ongoing farmers protest all over the country, Professor Chaman Lal, Honorary Adviser, Bhagat Singh Archives, Delhi, has urged the farmers’ organisations and people in general to celebrate the 140th birth anniversary of great freedom fighter and peasant leader Sardar Ajit Singh on February 23, by declaring it a ‘Kisan Day’ and holding memorial meetings, lectures and processions and focusing on farmers demands to mark the day. Sardar Ajit Singh, uncle of Shaheed Bhagat Singh, was born on February 23rd, 1881 at Khatkar Kalan village, in a family of freedom fighters. Chaman Lal, who retired as a professor from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), said, Ajit Singh’s grandfather Fateh Singh was a part of Maharaja Ranjit Singh’s army and continuing the tradition, all three brothers Kishan Singh, Ajit Singh and Swarn Singh were a part of the freedom struggle, all suffering long jail terms and Ajit Singh