Niranjan Singh Talib
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Sardar Niranjan Singh Talib (1901–1976),[1] was a journalist, an independence activist, revolutionary and influential leader of Indian National Congress leader and also served as Punjab Pradesh Congress Chief. He was a noted Gandhian and joined the Non-cooperation movement on call of Mahatma Gandhi in 1920.[2][3][4][5][6] He was editor of nationalist daily Punjabi newspaper Desh Darpan, which was once published from Calcutta.[7][2] Further, he was also a close associate of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose and at one point of time associated closely with All India Forward Bloc[8] as many sources claim, he drove the car, in which Netaji escaped from his house arrest in Calcutta.[7][9][10] Before independence, he spent around 10 years in total in various jails in British India.[3][11] Earlier he served as personal aide of Maharaja of Nabha, Ripudaman Singh, till the King was deposed.[12] After independence served as Minister in Punjab Government as Public Works Department minister[13] and also Head of Capital Project, Public Health, Engineering and Housing, which founded Chandigarh as newly developed capital city.[14] In 1962 he won election from Chandigarh, as a Congress party candidate.[15] He served as member of Rajya Sabha from Punjab for the years 1974 till his death in 1976.[16]