Avtar Singh Malhotra


Avtar Singh Malhotra was a Punjabi politician belonging to the Communist Party of India from Punjab, India. He is famous for his active leadership to communist and patriotic resistance in 1980's during separatist insurgency in Punjab.

Biography

Born on 18 April 1917, at Daultala town, in Rawalpindi District, British Punjab, Mr Malhotra spent his childhood there.
After passing the MA in first division in the 1940s, Mr Malhotra became a lecturer of English in a college at Rawalpindi. He joined communist movement during this period. He quit his job in 1945 and became the editor of the communist party publication weekly Jange Azadi.

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