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Ludhiana: The BSNL Employees’ Union, Ludhiana, organised the 11th voluntary blood donation camp here today. The camp was to observe the 87th martyrdom day of Shaheed-E-Azam Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev. In all, 102 employees donated blood during the camp. Doctors and technicians from the Red Cross Society and Krishna Hospital collected the donated blood units. Before the start of blood donation camp, Com Balbir Singh, national president, of the union, hoisted the flag of the union. He said the union was consistently fighting to safe guard the interest of BSNL emoloyees. He called upon the workers to work relentlessly for strengthening the union, so that the anti-public sector policies of the government were defeated. Manjit Singh Dhillon, Chief General Manager, Telecom, Punjab Circle, inaugurated the camp. He appreciated the initiative of the union. RL Moudgil, former assistant general secretary and circle president, said the donated blood saved the lives of people and was given to patients of thalassaemia. A health awareness campaign for women was organised by Punjab circle women’s welfare organisation.

100th birth year of Pt Deendayal Upadhyay to be celebrated

Phillaur: The 100th birth anniversary of Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay will be celebrated on 5 April at 10.00 am at Era’s Resorts, Goniana Mandi, Bajakhana Road, Bathinda. Sukhminderpal Singh Grewal, National Secretary of the BJP Kisan Morcha, said workers from 11 districts — Bhatinda (Rural), Bhatinda (Urban), Abohar, Fazilka, Ferozepur, Moga, Fridkot, Mukatsar, Barnala, Sangrur and Mansa — will join the event. He said a team of 11 members, including him, was working for this social cause. Other members are Sandeep Rinwa from Abohar, Gurwinder Singh Brar, Bibi Sukhjit Kaur from Bhagta Bhaika, Lajpat Goyal Goniana Mandi, Gulshan Wadhwa from Bathinda (Urban), Dheeraj Kumar Barnala, Sunil Goyal (Dimple) from Sangrur, Pawan Jain (Sardulgarh) from Mansa, Shamlal

Punjabi poet

For other uses, see Pash (disambiguation).

Avtar Singh Sandhu (9 September 1950 – 23 March 1988), who wrote under the pen namePash, was an Indian poet, one of the major poets in Punjabi of the 1970s. He was killed by Sikh extremists on 23 March 1988. His strongly left-wing views were reflected in his poetry.

Early life and activism

Pash was born as Avtar Singh Sandhu in 1950 in a small village called Talwandi Salem in Jalandhar district of Punjab, India, in a middle-class farmers family. His father Sohan Singh Sandhu was a soldier in the Indian Army who also composed poetry as a hobby. Pash grew up in the midst of the Naxalite movement, a revolutionary movement in India against the landlords, industrialists, traders, etc. who control the means of production. This was in the midst of the Green revolution which had addressed India's problem of famine using high yield crops, but had also unconsciously led to other forms of inequities in Punjab.

In 1970, he published his first book of revolutionary poems, Loh-Katha (Iron Tale), at the age of 18. His militant and provocative tone raised the ire of the establishment and a murder charge was soon brought against him. He spent nearly two years in jail, before being finally acquitted.

On acquittal, the 22-year-old became involved in Punjab's Maoist front, editing a literary magazine, Siarh (The Plow Line) and in 1973 Pash founded 'Punjabi Sahit Te Sabhiachar Manch' (Punjabi Literature and Culture Forum). He became a popular political figure on the Left during this period and was awarded a fellowship at the Punjabi Academy of Letters in 1985. He ran to the United Kingdom and the United States the following year; while in the US, he became involved with the Anti-47 Front, opposing Khalistani violence. His words had a great influence on the minds of the people.

Assassination

At the beginning of 1988 Pash was in Punjab for the renewal of his