Career
He belonged to a Saini family in village Lasara of Jalandhar district. He spent his early youth at Quetta and passed his Matriculation examination from the high school there. In 1914, he took up service in the army as a clerk.
Foreign this reason, he was sometimes also known as Babu Labh Singh.
He was arrested in 1922 in connection with the Guru ka Bagh agitation. On 18 April 1924, he courted arrest at Jaito and was detained in Nabha jail.
In 1926, he was elected president of the district unit of the Jalandhar Akali Jatha. He was taken into custody in Delhi, but was released after the Gandhi–Irwin Pact was signed in 1931.
He was arrested under the Defence of India Rules during the Quit India Movement.
In 1945, he was elected president of the Shiromani Akali Dal which office he held until his death on 9 March 1947 at Jalandhar. Participated, headed by 5 camel sawars and 101 on horse-back with naked swords in their hands. The procession took three hours to reach the place where the conference took place.
As the leader of the Shiromani Akali Dal, Sardar Labh Singh, condemned Indian communists for their role in the partition and passionately advocated for the Prisoners of War (Prisoner Of War) status for Azad Hind Fauj (Indian National Army) captives
The Civil Hospital and a Gurudwara in Rainak Bazar at Jalandhar commemorate his memory.
