Gopal Singh, Khalsa, son of Dewa Singh, Chamar, Village Leel, P. S. Raikot, District Ludhiana. After passing the Matriculation Examination at the Khalsa High School, Ludhiana, he proceeded to America for further studies, obtaining a passport at Hong Kong for Mexico about the middle of 1923. He graduated from the University of Idaho and in 1928 was reported to be an ardent supporter of the Ghadar Party. But eventually realizing that the funds of the party went to fill up private pockets, he joined the Hindustan National Party, San Francisco, California, (which ceased to exist in 1929) and became its General Secretary in 1928. On the 4th August of that year he wrote a letter to the editor of the "Asli Quami Dard", Amritsar, requesting the publication of certain resolutions passed by the Hindustan National Party of America, at a meeting on the 15th of July 1928, sympathism with the Bardoli Satyagrahis and appreciating the work done by the Naujawan Bharat Sabha in proselytizing young men in the national movement and accelerating the day of freedom. He spoke at another meeting held at the Sikh Temple, Stockton, on 21st October 1928 praising Gurmukh Singh (G-54) and Piara Singh (P-25). In the same year he was the editor of the "Hindustan". On the 16th of December 1928 a meeting of the above party was held at Sacramento under the presidency of Gopal Singh, at which resolutions were passed condemning the British for the treatment meted out to Lala Lajpat Rai, and urging that every Indian should be actuated by a spirit of vengeance. On 17th May 1929 he wrote a letter to Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru explaining the pitiable plight of Indians abroad and saying that the question should be taken up by the Indian National Congress. About the end of 1930 he married an American girl. At about the same time he was reported to be anxious to set out on a lecture tour speaking on the Round Table Conference and its prospects, thus, creating the impression that his views had become moderate. In any case he had by this time forfeited the confidence of the Ghadr Party. He arrived in Bombay on the 14th of May 1931 from Venice by the S.S. "Gange". He arrived at his village on the 6th June 1931. In July 1931 he was reported to be intending to dissociate himself from all political activities and to run some business. In September 1931 he started a paper entitled "Nawan Yug" from Lahore, to support the cause of the Indian National Congress. He controlled this paper up to May 1932 when it was taken over from him by Master Sundar Singh of Lyallpur. In November 1932 he attended the Sikh Rights Conference at Calcutta, as a delegate from the Punjab, and delivered an objectionable speech on the second day of the Conference. Has recently started a shoe shop at 66 Ashutosh Mukherjee Road, Bhowanipur, Calcutta.

Description : Born 13th September 1903; height 5’-9lZi; black eyes and hair; scar on left little finger.