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Gurdial Singh Dhillon
Minister for Agriculture
In office 12 May 1986 – 14 February 1988
Prime Minister	Rajiv Gandhi
5th Speaker of Lok Sabha
In office 8 August 1969 – 19 March 1971
Deputy	G.G. Swell
Preceded by	Neelam Sanjiva Reddy
Succeeded by	himself
In office 22 March 1971 – 1 December 1975
Deputy	G.G. Swell
Preceded by	himself
Succeeded by	Bali Ram Bhagat
Personal details
Born	(1915-08-06)6 August 1915 Amritsar, Punjab, British India
Died	23 March 1992(1992-03-23) (aged 76) New Delhi, India
Political party	Indian National Congress
Alma mater	Punjab University Law College
Occupation	Politician Diplomat

Dr. Gurdial Singh Dhillon (6 August 1915 – 23 March 1992) was an Indian politician from the Indian National Congress party. He served as the Speaker of the Lok Sabha twice, President of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (1973–76) and Indian High Commissioner to Canada (1980–82).

Early life

On 6 August 1915, Gurdial Singh Dhillon was born in the Panjwar, some 20 kilometres west of Amritsar city in Punjab into a Dhillon Jat family, He was descendants of Bhangi misl rulers. He studied at Khalsa College, Amritsar and Government College, Lahore before graduating in Law from Punjab University Law College in Lahore. He played an active role in the Harse Chhina Mogha Morcha rebellion in 1947.

Political career

Dhillon was a member of the Punjab Legislative Assembly (1952–1967), where he was its Deputy Speaker (1952–54) and its Speaker (1954–62). In 1967 he was first elected to the Lok Sabha, the lower House of the Indian Parliament representing Tarn Taran parliamentary constituency. He was elected from Firozpur in 1985.

Dhillon served two terms as Speaker of Lok Sabha (1969–71 and 1971–75) and was Minister of Agriculture in the Indian Government (1986–1988). Regarding his time in Parliament, his biography on the Lok Sabha website expresses the following:

A man of uncompromising principles, he considered the institution of Parliament to be the temple of democracy and as such had great respect for the House and its traditions and conventions. The rare ability to quickly assess the mood of the House and a pragmatic approach helped him discharge the onerous responsibility of the office of the Speaker of the Lok Sabha in a dignified way. Dhillon's election as the President of the Inter-Parliamentary Council of the IPU was at once a great honour for himself and also for the people and the Parliament of India.

With Kartar Singh, he co-authored a series of eight children's books in the early 1970s entitled 'Stories from Sikh History'.

Having undergone heart bypass surgery, Dr. Dhillon died at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi on 23 March 1992 following a heart attack.

See also

• Harse Chhina Mogha Morcha

References

1. ^ The Office of Speaker Lok Sabha
2. ^ The Office of Speaker Lok Sabha
3. International Organizations. worldstatesmen.org.
4. ^ "Biography of G.S Dhillon". Winentrance. 19 March 2011. Archived from the original on 26 January 2020. Retrieved 26 January 2020.
5. Mukherjee, Mridula; Peasants in India's Non-violent Revolution: Practice and Theory p. 233; Sage 2004 ISBN 0-7619-9686-9
6. "Welcome to Official Web site of Punjab, India". Archived from the original on 28 July 2010. Retrieved 6 December 2008.
7. http://www.eci.gov.in/SR_KeyHighLights/LS_1967/Vol_I_LS_67.pdf
8. Mercury News: Search Results
9. Stories from Sikh History - Kartar Singh, Gurdial S. Dhillon - Google Boeken
10. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 15 June 2011. Retrieved 6 December 2008.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

External links

• Gurdial Singh Dhillon materials in the South Asian American Digital Archive (SAADA)
• The woes of Lok Sabha Speaker: A graphic account of the Speaker’s woes was given by Mr. G.S. Dhillon

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