Background
Mehnga Singh or Kulwant Singh was born in Jagadhri, Yamunanagar, from Sikh parents. His father"s name was Sardar Partap Singh.
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Career
He also commanded a number of militants during the first day of Operation Blue Star. After passing ninth grade, he entered to ITI and started a course. After the April 1978 massacre, Mehnga Singh started going to Akhand Kirtani Jatha programmes.
He held his first attack to Nirankaris in Jagadhri, when some of them held a meeting.
He with some companions attacked them and the most of Nirankaris run away. He was charged in Murdery case and he was arrested, but he was later released.
After that, he left his hometown and came in Amritsar, to Amarjit Kaur, wife of Fauja Singh, who was killed in action in the massacre of 1978. There he met Sukhdev Singh Babbar, Kulwant Singh Nagoke, Sulakhan Singh, Balwinder Singh, Vadhava Singh, Anokh Singh Babbar, Manmohan Singh Babbar and others
Mehnga Singh along with about 40 men built a big bunker in Baba Atal of heavy machine guns, semi-automatic rifles and Talwar.
On 1 June 1984, the first day of the Operation Blue Star, armed forces of CRPF and Border Security Force (BSF) attacked the bunker at 12 pm. He and the 40 militants fought bravely until when a sniper shot Mehnga Singh three times in the forehead and killed him along with 8 others The other militants ran to other bunkers, when the first bunker fell down.
When an man asked him how he was, he answered "Chardi Kala!".
He was cremated close to Manji Sahib, near the Golden Temple.
