Amar Singh Ambalvi

Amar Singh Ambalvi was one of twelve members of a sub-committee that the Shiromani Akali Dal appointed on 11 December 1972 to proclaim afresh the programme and policies of the Dal. The Encyclopaedia of Sikhism, which spells his name Ambalavi, names him in its entry on the Anandpur Sahib Resolution.

The Encyclopaedia says the sub-committee followed an electoral debacle that led the Akali Dal to self-introspection. Its first meeting took place at Amritsar. The venue then shifted to Chandigarh, where the sub-committee completed its task in ten successive meetings. The working committee adopted the resulting document unanimously at Anandpur Sahib on 16 and 17 October 1973, and the Anandpur Sahib Resolution took its name from the town.

He sat on the sub-committee with Surjit Singh Barnala, Gurcharan Singh Tohra, Jiwan Singh Umranangal, Gurmeet Singh, Dr Bhagat Singh, Balwant Singh, Gian Singh Rarewala, Prem Singh Lalpura, Jaswinder Singh Brar, Bhag Singh and Major General Gurbakhsh Singh of Badhani. The Encyclopaedia says nothing more about Ambalvi himself, and we found no other source that does: not his birth, his town or his later career.