Gopal Singh, alias Nikka Singh, son of Tani, Jat, of Village Dyal, P. S.
Garhshankar, District Hoshiarpur. He went to America for the second
time in 1913 and was reported to be a member of the Ghadr Party. In July
1922 he was elected to serve on the Committee of the Victoria Island
Doaba Society. At a meeting held in the Sikh Temple in Vancouver in
December 1923, he spoke in appreciation of the Shiromani Gurdwara
Parbhandak Committee which he said was the only agent which could
secure the freedom of India. At another meeting held in the same place in
April 1924, he condemned the British Government for their cruel
treatment of the Akalis. He is alleged to have written to the Editor of the
Desh Sewak, Jullundur, urging the return of the Canadian Shahidi Jatha to
America and preventing the promulgation of the Gurdwara Bill, as long
as Bhagwan Singh Jathedar (B-58) was not unconditionally released.
Early in 1927 he was the President of a meeting held in Victoria to collect
subscriptions for the relief of the Babbar Akalis. In 1927 and 1928 he was
the Secretary of the Canadian American Press Society of the Doaba. In
1929 he was reported to be a regular quarterly subscriber to the Ghadr
Party on behalf of the Kirti' fund. At a meeting held at Fraser Mills,
Vancouver, in January 1930, he eulogized the services of Mewa Singh.
While priest of the Vancouver Sikh Temple in 1930 he was alleged to
have misappropriated some of the Temple funds. He is still in Vancouver.
Is literate.