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Jagat Singh Mann

Village: Tuto Majra

City: Hoshiarpur

Jagat Singh, Mann, Village Tuto Majra, District Hoshiarpur. He was reported to be an office-bearer of the Hindustan Young Men’s Association, Vancouver, in 1927 and to have attended several meetings convened by the Association. At one of its meetings held in Vancouver in April 1929 the action of Bhagat Singh (the murderer of a Police Officer in India) was praised, and it was decided to send financial aid to those who followed his example. Early in 1929 he paid a secret visit to Seattle to discuss matters concerning the Ghadr Party with Gurmukh Singh (G-54), from Kabul who was there at that time. He was a member ofthe Canadian Congress deputation to collect funds for Bhagat Singh's appeal and also helped Kartar Singh (K-30), to collect subscriptions from the Ghadr Party for his paper entitled "India and Canada". Towards the end ofJanuary 1932 he met at Abbotsford, Nidhan Singh (N-39), President of the Ghadr Party, who had crossed over to British Columbia surreptitiously to attend the anniversary celebration, at the Fraser Mills, ofMewa Singh's martyrdom.