COMRADE NIDHAN SINGH GUDHANI KALAN ON 29TH MARTYRDOM ANNIVERSARY TODAY

LET US RESSURECT SPIRIT OF COMRADE NIDHAN SINGH GUDHANI KALAN ON 29TH MARTYRDOM ANNIVERSARY TODAY AND 100TH BIRTH CENTENARY YEAR. LAID HIS LIFE AGAINST THE KHALISTANI FUNDAMENTALIST TERRORISM WITH DEATH DEFYING COURAGE. A CRUSADER FOR LIBERATION OF PEOPLE TILL THE VERY LAST AND A MOST ARDENT PRACTITIONER OF MASSLINE.WE NEED TO RESSURECT HIS SECULAR SPIRIT WITH HINDUTVA FASCSIM AT ITS CRESCENDO.

By Harsh Thakor:
Comrade Nidhan Singh Gudhani Kalan was hanged by Khalistani fundamentalists exactly 29 years ago. Few comrades waged such sustained resistance against Khalistani terror as Comrade Nidhan, who struck them at their hardest point. Certain revolutionary sections even soft pedalled with Khalistani terrorism or Sikh fundamentalism at that time. In spite of being subjected to brutal torture he did not submit to letting out any of his group's secrets. 

He belonged to the Central Team C.P.I.(M.L.) group that combated the Khalistani fundamentalist movement tooth and nail or at a depth no group did. In 1956 he received his baptism when he joined the Communist Party of India. On several occasions in his lifetime he was imprisoned. Formally he was president of the Punjab kisan Union and at the end of his life was working as the leader of the Kisan Sangharsh Commitee in Ropar.

In the annals of the Indian Communist Movement or history of liberation the name of Comrdae Nidhan Singh will be permanently engraved. He was amongst the comrades of that era who laid their lives down defining Khalistani separatist ideology with death defying spirit. Without doubt he was one of the best sons of our land whose spirit still shimmers. He meticulously toiled as a peasant leader for decades. We need more lotuses to bloom like Nidhan Singh to confront the Hindu saffron terror prevailing today. Nidhan blended the determination of a soldier with the skill of a technician. Few comrades in Punjab shimmered the red spark of revolutionary resistance to create a prairie fire or ressurect the spirit of Chairman Mao as much as Nidhan Singh. He traversed the most tortuous paths in his lifetime braving all obstacles and thus exuded the inner, spiritual essence of a true revolutionary. Inspite of being illiterate he mastered the polemics of Marxism-Leninism-Mao thought. His life was an example for comrades to emulate on how to dialectically deal with the problems confronting a movement at various junctures and rise from the depth s of despair.

With great tenacity and dialectic methodology he combated left adventurism and the later right deviationist trend of SN Singh .in the 1970's. With the sharpness of a sword he defied all counter-revolutionary winds hitting revisionism in its very backbone and defending the cutting edge of the vanguard Leninist party at the core of its soul. Comrade Nidhan was master in practice of mass line, and best proponents or practitioner of the line of the C.T.C.P.I.(M.L.)With meticulous skill he worked as a fraction within peasant organizations steering comrades around him but still preserving the secret party organization.

Comrades can never forget Nidhan's contribution in the homage meeting for Naxalite martyr Tarsem Bawa, on June 8th.On June 25th his followers thronged like an army into his village in Ghudani Kalan igniting the spark of resistance. His memorial meeting on July 5th in 1991 was one of the most touching or inspiring ever with thousands swarming in enthusiasm, including many women. The venue of meeting was reminiscent of being lit by red lamps, or a spark turning into a prairie fireCom.The speakers at commemoration meeting spoke on the fascist nature of Khalistani movement and ideology and how it acted as an agent of the state. They stated that such gatherings were most encouraging which proved the enthusiasm and potential of the masses of Punjab to confront the fascist Khalistani movement and state terror. Most notable were the speeches of Jaspal Jassi of journal Inquilabi Jantak Leh and Amolak Singh, editor of Surkh Rekha. Such memorial meetings paved the path for the unity of Communist revolutionary forces, particularly that of the mass line trend.

His death was avenged by the 2 secret armed organization ,the 'Shaheed Kartara Singh brigade' and the 'Red guards 'who eliminated his assassins with an armed squad action.

In Nidhan's time the Unity of the CCRI and CT groups had not been accomplished but the organization naively Central Team which Nidhan Singh belonged fought left adventurism and right opportunism at its very roots.

This year is also his 100th birth anniversary year. Today certain Maoists still support Sikh extremist ideology Commemorating Comrade Nidhan Singh we must remember the fascist nature of Khalistan movement and reactionary nature of Akali movement. Sadly his son. Nazar Singh Boparai who was founder of journal Surkh Rekha, has too fallen prey to this trend, negating the seeds sown of the massline. Today the mass line practice in landless labour and peasant organizations owes a lot to the painstaking contribution of Nidhan Singh. He sowed the seeds for many a lotus to bloom which is apparent today in the mass line practice revolutionary movement in Punjab. I wish the article written on his 10th anniversary in Surkh Reka could be translated into English and published into a booklet. Ironically in September journal 'Surkh Rekha' commemorates its 40th founding anniversary.