Roor Singh Gill

Com Roor Singh was from a family of poor farm workers. He was a SFI district Secretary of Amritsar, Punjab. He was also a member of the state ITI and polytechnic students' action committee. Com Roor Singh was a meritorious student and was in the final year of his ITI course. He was killed because he refused to down the red flag flying on his house. He declared to the ruling class goondas who had asked him to down the red flag that even if he were to be killed the flag would not be lowered from the roof of his house. He was murderd by goondas at the Tarn Tari bus stop on the 4th of October 1980 while he was on his way back from an ITI-Polytechnic students' rally.