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{{Infobox officeholder
|name = Mehtab Singh
|image =
|birth_date = 1879
|birth_place = Hadali Village, [[Shahpur District|Shahpur]], [[British India]]
|death_date = 23 May 1938
|parents = S. Hazur Singh and Smt. Karam Kaur
|party = [[Shiromani Akali Dal]]
|office = [[President of Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee]]<ref>[https://sgpcamritsar.org/sgpc-presidents.php SGPC former Presidents]. Retrieved 5 April 2021.</ref>
|term = 16 July 1922 - 27 April 1925
|predecessor = Sundar Singh Ramgarhya
|successor = Mangal Singh
|office1 = [[Punjab Legislative Assembly#Punjab Legislative Council (1921-1936)|Deputy President of Punjab Legislative Council]]<ref>The Punjab Parliamentarians 1897-2013, Provincial Assembly of the Punjab, Lahore - Pakistan, 2015</ref>
|term1 = 23 February 1921 - 24 October 1921
|predecessor1 = ''Post Established''
|successor1 = [[Manohar Lal (economist)|Manohar Lal]]
}}

'''Mehtab Singh, Sardar Bahadur''' (1879–1938) was a lawyer, freedom fighter and legislator who became closely associated with [[Akali movement|Gurudwara Reform movement]] and later became the president of the [[Shiromani Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee]].

==Early life and education==
Mehtab Singh born on 1879 at Shahpur District now in [[Pakistan]]. His father Hazur Singh died when Mehtab Singh was four years old. He had his early education at village school and passed the Entrance examination for [[Central Model School, Lahore|Central Model School]], [[Lahore]], in 1895.

Then he proceeded to [[England]] where he studied Law. He returned to [[British India]] in 1898 as [[Barrister]] at Law. He was appointed government pleader at [[Ferozpur]] and then transferred to Lahore. He was honoured by the Government with the titles of Sardar Sahib in 1915 and Sardar Bahadur in 1918.<ref>[http://www.panjabdigilib.org/webuser/searches/displayPage.jsp?ID=1549&page=1&CategoryID=1&Searched=W3GX&sbtsro=0 Akali Lehar de Mahan Neta] (Punjabi). Book by [[Partap Singh|Partap Singh, Giani]] 1976.</ref>

==Freedom Struggle==
In 1921 he became the member of [[Punjab Legislative Assembly (British India)|Punjab Legislative Council]] and then became its vice president but he resigned from both vice presidentship and membership of the Council on 11 November 1921, as a protest against British Government for taking away the keys of [[Harimandir Sahib]] treasury and he plunged into the Gurdwara Reform Movement.

On 26 November 1921, was arrested at [[Ajnala, India|Ajnala]] in an Akali Diwan on the charge of making a seditious speech and sentenced to 6 months imprisonment, with a fine of Rs. 1000. In the absence of [[Baba Kharak Singh]] in jail, Mehtab Singh acted as President of Shiromani Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee. He was again arrested in the [[Gurdwara Guru ka Bagh]] agitation in 1922. In October 1923 when SGPC and SAD were declared unlawful organisations, he again with other leaders detained. He was one of the Seven delegates of All Parties Conference at Delhi on 24 February 1928.<ref>[https://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/All_Parties_Conference_1928 All Parties Conference 1928]. ''www.sikhwiki.org''. Retrieved 8 April 2021.</ref>

At All Parties Convention at [[Calcutta]] on 28 and 29 December 1928, he strongly opposed the views of [[Mohammed Ali Jinnah]]. He was the president of the committee for the notified [[Sikh]] [[Gurdwara]]s at [[Nankana Sahib]] from 1933 to 1936.

Mehtab Singh died of Heart attack on 23 May 1938.

==References==
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[[Category:1938 deaths]]
[[Category:Sikh politics]]

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