Recognition of his Unity stand
He was one of those leaders who unhesitatingly took up the cause of the INA in 1945. He was a firm protagonist of national unity and opposed both the Muslim League's demand for Pakistan and the Akali proposal for an Azad Punjab. During the elections of 1946 he toured the whole of the Punjab and the N.W.F.P. and made a magnificent contribution to the success of the Congress.
According to Jawaharlal Nehru, during his whole life Babaji had never surrender to anything that he considered to be wrong or evil, whatever the consequences might have been. At another place Mr. Nehru said of Babaji:
"There are few hands which can uphold the honour and preserve the dignity of the national Flag better than those of Babaji".
It is interesting to see how perceptive Baba Kharak Singh was. On July 10,1949. In an appeal to the nation he said:
“It is a matter of genuine pride that India has become free from foreign domination and I pray the Providence to bless my motherland with lasting prosperity and biding peace.
“But I regret to say that the lot of the common man in India has not much improved as it should have under the national government. Our Prime Minister (Nehru) is truly a great man worthy of the position that he hold, but I regret to observe that most of the things that he intends to do for the country’s good and many a declaration of policy he makes are nor fully implemented by those who are doing the day-to-day administration.
“Black marketing, corruption, jobbery (fraudulent official transactions) and several other vices are rampant both in the administration as well as outside. I am afraid that if drastic steps are not taken immediately and of nothing substantial is done effectively to stem this vicious tide, our hard-won freedom will be of little use.”
Baba Kharak Singh was describing the Indian scene of four decades ago. His advice still holds good, but just as it did not have much affect on those who were eulogising him then, it will have little impact on those who are in the power now..."
I have written a full article about him as how he influenced me as a young man: The Man Who Influenced Me Most at My Sikh Philosophy at Youth: The Great Iron Man of Indian Civilization
Please read more from the source with thanks: http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Baba_Kharak_Singh#Baba_Kharak_Singh:_The_Uncrowned_king
