Kanwarjit Singh(26)
S/o: Manminder Singh
Occupation: Forest guard
Kanwarjit was three years old when Manminder Singh of Bandala village in Ferozepur district was killed. Subsequently, the family not only faced a severe financial crisis but was also subjected to sustained humiliation by the police. “For years, the police came to our home unannounced and beat up my grandfather Buta Singh and my uncles,” says Kanwarjit. “They even gave me toffees so that I could tell them if my father had come home because they didn’t believe he had died.” His mother, Sukhjinder Kaur, worked in the fields to support the family. Today, his brother is looking after their six acre land, while he is in a government job. During the Dera row, people wanted to exploit their lineage but they refused to become involved.

Ishar Singh (39)
S/o:Jarnail Singh
Bhindranwale
Occupation:Property dealer
Ishar Singh is media shy. He has a reason to be. He’s the son of Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, the man who led the violent struggle from the front. After Bhindranwale’s death in Operation Bluestar, his wife Pritam Kaur came to Jalandhar from Rode village in Moga district in 1989 along with her two sons, Ishar Singh and Inderjit Singh.
While Inderjit has been in Canada for the past six years, Ishar is a property dealer who also runs a small finance company in Jalandhar. Though himself a matriculate, he wants to provide good education to his two children and doesn’t want to be involved in any controversy, religious or otherwise. While Ishar refuses to talk, according to his family, he has made a life for himself without help from any radical religious group despite the funds that his father’s name attracted. In fact, both the brothers are not linked to any religious body.

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