By News Agency of Kashmir
Jammu: Veteran freedom fighter Sardar Sant Singh Tegh breathed his last at Achariya Shree Chander of Medical Sciences Hospital, here this afternoon. He was about 100 year old.
Sant Singh Teg, a renowned Gandhian and freedom fighter, was born at Hattian Dupatta on April 13, 1907 in Muzaffarabad district of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.
Teg has worked with many stalwarts of the country, including Jawaharlal Nehru. It was he who personally received Nehru when he came to the State in 1946 through the Kohala route, now in Muzaffarabad district.
According to the family members of Singh, he had gone on a tour of Doda district to attend public functions where he fell from the horse back at Gandoh.
He was brought to Jammu and admitted at ASCOMS Hospital. Doctors tried their best to save his life but Teg succumbed to his injuries, this afternoon.
Paying tributes to the grand old man of state politics, Balraj Puri Convener of the Sant Singh Teg birth Centenary Committee said that true to his life long tradition he died in action.
He appealed to the citizens of Jammu to attend his cremations at 11.30 A.M. on Monday September 17 at Jogi Gate and pay their last homage to the departed soul.