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Aug 17, 1937 86 years old
Indian politician, activist, lawyer and author
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- Bhim Singh (born 17 August 1941) is an Indian politician, activist, lawyer and author.
- He is the leader of the Jammu and Kashmir National Panthers Party (JKNPP), a political organisation based in the conflict-torn Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir.
- He survived an assassination attempt by the police, while leading the Jammu student protests of 1966, and went on to found the Panthers Party in 1982, along with his wife Jay Mala.
- Bhim Singh was Panthers Party chairman for 30 years, until 2012 when he nominated his nephew Harsh Dev Singh in place.
- In the 2002 Jammu and Kashmir Elections, Panthers Party under his leadership won all seats in the Udhampur district, and formed part of the coalition government.
- In 2015, Bhim Singh's book Unbelievable - Delhi to Islamabad, was released by Indian vice-president Ansari, chronicling his efforts as a Supreme Court advocate, gaining the release of over 700 falsely accused prisoners, from Indian and Pakistani jails.
- He is believed to be the first man from India to visit 150 countries, and the second volume of his book documenting these travels, Peace Mission: Around the World on Motorcycle, was released by Dr.
- Karan Singh the erstwhile crown prince of Jammu and Kashmir.
- Bhim Singh was elected member of the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly (1977–87) from Chenani-Ghordi (Udhampur), and was nominated by successive Prime Ministers of India as member of the National Integration Council (1991-2016).
- Bhim Singh, as leader of the Panthers Party, won the 1988 Udhampur by-election to the Indian parliament, despite the Election Commission of India, attempting to rig it against him. In 1988, future Indian prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, joined Bhim Singh on hunger strike in front of the Election Commission offices, in protest to the election they rigged against him, in order to prevent him from joining the Indian Parliament.
- The Jammu and Kashmir High Court ruled in favour of Bhim Singh, judging that he had won the Lok Saba by-election from Udhampur, a seat previously held by his kinsman Karan Singh, former Crown prince of Jammu and Kashmir and its first President.In 1985, in a landmark hearing Bhim Singh was awarded fifty thousand rupees by the Supreme Court of India for his false imprisonment, after being suspended as a Member of the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly.
- The order of compensation from his case would change the tort law in India.While his 1996 efforts in moving the Supreme Court and the Election Commission, are seen as instrumental in returning democratic elections after nine years of absence to militancy torn Jammu and Kashmir.
- In 2017, Bhim Singh in a historic judgment, defeated the government of India in the Supreme Court, enabling bar council elections to be held in Jammu and Kashmir for the very first time, in accordance to the Advocates Act 1961.Bhim Singh has held several key posts in the Indian Youth Congress, such as Vice-president (1977–78), General Secretary (1974–76) and President of Jammu and Kashmir State Youth Congress (1973–74) appointed by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.
- Before breaking away from the Congress Party to found the JKNPP in 1982, he served as a General Secretary of the All India Congress Committee, the central decision-making assembly of the Indian National Congress Party. Bhim Singh was born in the village of Bhugterian, near Ramnagar, and is a descendant of the Wazir and General Zorawar Singh, referred to by historians as "Conqueror of Ladakh" and "Napoleon of India" for his 19th century conquests of the Himalayan Kingdoms of Ladakh, Tibet and Baltistan.
- While his Dogra Rajput dynasty, is believed to be descended from the mythical Ikshvaku (Solar) dynasty that in Eastern religious scriptures has produced personalities such as Lord Rama, Gautama Buddha, and twenty-two out of the twenty-four Jain Tirthankaras. Despite his Hindu royal and religious histories, Prof.
- Bhim Singh has politically and through the judiciary fought for democracy and secularism for over 55 years in Muslim majority Jammu and Kashmir, once described by President Bill Clinton as "the most dangerous place in the World." In doing so Singh has spent 8 years in jail and endured militancy, Islamic extremism, terrorism and false arrests as consequence of the Jammu and Kashmir insurgencies and the ongoing Jammu and Kashmir armed conflict between India, Pakistan and China.He was allegedly poisoned in the Srinagar Central Jail in 1978 after speaking out against Sheikh Abdullah, the then Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir.He is locally known as Sher-e-Jammu (Lion of Jammu).
