Lt.Gen. Harbaksh Singh - Sikhs The Supreme

Had it not been for Lt.Gen. Harbaksh Singh, the pride of a grateful nation, 1965 war with Pakistan would have been lost by India. A noted writer S. Patwant Singh writes in his book “Of Dreams and Demons” (1994). “At a reception at Rashtrapati. Bhawan in New Delhi, which followed a presentation of awards for the 1965 operation, President Dr. S. Radhakrishnan, with Harbaksh & Jogi Dhillon (Lt.Gen. Harbaksh Singh & Lt. Gen Joginder Singh Dhillon) sitting on either side of him, said in a voice loud enough for J.N.Chaudhary (the then army chief) to hear, “we were told to expect bad tidings, but both of you saved the country.”

I would like to substantiate my above statement with the following examples, Shekhar Gupta, a senior journalist and T.V. anchor writes in his article, ^^;q+} ftlesa ikd gkjk] Hkkjr ugha thrk** published in a Hindi 'Dainik Bhaskar’ on Sept. 15, 2015, reads as under :

Mrs. Harmala Kaur D/o the General in her article, "Remembring my father, Lt. Gen Harbaksh Singh" published in Hindustan Times in Sept. 2015, writes, "In the thick war as the then army Commander, he had famously stood up to army chief Gen. JN Chaudhury’s verbal order to pull back troops to the Beas Bridge on GT Road and instead went ahead with an offensive thrust, fighting fierce and decisive battles that eventually changed the course of the war."..... ".... his reputation as a strategist par excellence during a long and distinguished career that took him to every battlefront of Independent Indian till he retired in 1969." He died in Nov. 1999 unsung. Capt. Amrinder Singh, the then ADC of Lt. Gen. Harbaksh Singh, writes in his artical "But for Lt. Gen Harbaksh Singh, Punjab would’ve been lost" published in Hindustan Times dated Aug. 30, 2015. "It was 3:30 am on September 9 when I heard the phone ring.... I asked who was calling and it was then chief of Army Staff Gen. J.N. Chaudhury who asked me to wake Lt. Gen. Singh up. I shook the General from his sleep. Chaudhury asked him to withdraw Indian troops in Punjab to which Lt. Gen. Singh replied : "you cannot just give orders without seeing the situation on the battlefront and I cannot execute them. I am tired and going to sleep."....If we had weak General at the time, the morale of Indian forces would have been hit and Punjab lost."

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