| Baldev Mann | |
| Native Name: | instead.--> |
| Birth Name: | Baldev Maan |
| Birth Date: | 1952 7, df=y |
| Birth Place: | Bagga Kalan, Amritsar, Punjab, India |
| Death Date: | 26 September 1986 |
| Death Place: | Bagga Kalan, Amritsar district |
| Death Cause: | Killed by Khalistani Militants |
| Citizenship: | India |
| Nationality: | Indian |
| Party: | Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) New Democracy |
| Spouse: | Paramjit Kaur |
| Children: | Sonia Mann |
| Occupation: | Editor of Hirawal Dasta |
Baldev Mann was a left-wing activist of the Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) New Democracy. He was a state level leader of Kirti Kisan Union and the editor of Hirawal Dasta[1] [2], a revolutionary journal of the Naxalites.
On 26 September 1986 he was killed by terrorists while on his way to his village, Bagga Kalan, in Amritsar district of Punjab. His daughter is Sonia Mann.
Baldev Mann was born on 9 July 1952. He was the son of Inder Singh. He lived in the village Bagga Kalan Tehsil Ajnala, Amritsar. After completing his primary education at the village school; he matriculated from government high school at Raja Sansi.[3] Mann then went to Khalsa College, Amritsar, during which he faced detention from college during the time of 'the Emergency', and graduated in 1983.
While at Day College, he came in contact with the Communist Party of India (CPIML-ND). He organized young people in his village under the banner of 'Naujawan Bharat Sabha', a left-wing Indian association that sought to instigate revolution against the British Raj by gathering together workers and peasant youths. He turned it into a district-wide youth moment in Amritsar.
While at Amritsar, he was held and tortured at Amritsar's interrogation center, but released in 1975.
Approximately two years before his death, Mann married Paramjit Kaur, with whom he had a daughter. She was one week old when he was murdered while on his way to his village, Chinna Bagga, in Amritsar.[4] [5]
Baldev Singh Mann was killed while on his way to visit his family. He wrote a letter to his daughter shortly before his death, stating "I am struggling for the birth of a social order in which the shackles that enslave human beings are broken to bits, where the oppressed can heave a sigh of relief".[6]