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Gopal Singh

Village: Dyal

City: Hoshiarpur

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.