Gurmit Singh Aulakh
Gurmit Singh Aulakh | |
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Aulakh in 2008 | |
| 2nd President of the Council of Khalistan | |
| In office 7 October 1987 – 21 June 2017 | |
| Preceded by | Jagjit Singh Chohan |
| Succeeded by | Bakhshish Singh Sandhu |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 30 January 1938 Lyallpur, Punjab, British India |
| Died | 21 June 2017 (aged 79) Washington, D.C., U.S. |
| Spouse | Charnjit Kaur Sandhu |
| Children | 3 |
| Alma mater | Khalsa College (B.Sc.) Jordan Hill College of Education (Teacher Training) Howard University (PhD) |
| Occupation | |
Gurmit Singh Aulakh (1938–2017) was a research scientist and activist in the United States who was the former President of the Council of Khalistan, a non-profit political organization based in Washington, D.C. that supports the Khalistan movement in the Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent.