Om Prakash Malhotra: Difference between revisions

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Om Prakash Malhotra was born on 6 August 1922 in [[Srinagar]], [[Jammu and Kashmir (princely state)|Jammu and Kashmir]], [[British India]], into a [[Punjabi Hindu]] [[Khatri#Hindu Khatris|Khatri]] family of the [[Malhotra]] clan, within the [[Dhai Ghar]] family-group. Malhotra received his schooling first at Model High School, Srinagar, and then at [[Sri Pratap College|Sri Pratap College, Srinagar]]. He then attended [[Government College University, Lahore]], before being selected to join the [[Indian Military Academy|Indian Military Academy (IMA), Dera Doon]].{{citation needed|date=February 2022}}

After retiring from the Indian Army on 31 May 1981, Malhotra served as the Ambassador of India to Indonesia from 1981 to 1984. During 1990-1991, he was the Governor of the Indian State of Punjab and Administrator of Chandigarh<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/12/19/world/punjabis-caught-between-sikh-rebels-and-new-delhi-fear-a-showdown.html|title=Punjabis, Caught Between Sikh Rebels and New Delhi, Fear a Showdown|last=Crossette|first=Barbara |date=19 December 1990|work=The New York Times|page=3|access-date=24 September 2022}}</ref> when militancy in that state was at its height. Malhotra resigned from his post in protest when planned elections in the state were deferred by the [[National Election Commission]] without notice.<ref>(2008) Grewal, J.S. The Cambridge History of India: The Sikhs of Punjab, pg. 287, Cambridge University Press, http://www.vidhia.com/Historical%20and%20Political/The_Sikhs_of_Punjab.pdf {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131028014127/http://www.vidhia.com/Historical%20and%20Political/The_Sikhs_of_Punjab.pdf |date=28 October 2013 }}</ref> Upon the postponement of the elections he said that "I have been through three Wars, I have been a General in the Wars, but I have never felt as defeated as I feel today after this announcement by the Election Commission that the Elections have been postponed."<ref>http://parliamentofindia.nic.in/ls/lsdeb/ls10/ses1/0712079101.htm {{Bare URL inline|date=August 2022}}</ref>

Malhotra was married to Saroj, with whom he had two children. His son, [[Ajai Malhotra]], was Ambassador of India to the Russian Federation from 2011 - 2013.{{citation needed|date=February 2022}}

|align="center" |[[File:Major_General_of_the_Indian_Army.svg|35px]] || [[Major general#India|Major General]] || Indian Army || 22 August 1967 (acting)<ref>{{cite web|title=Army Appointments/Promotions|url=http://pibarchive.nic.in/archive/ArchiveSecondPhase/DEFENCE/1967-JULY-DEC-DEFENCE-VOL-2/PDF/DEF-1967-08-22_057.pdf|website=Press Information Bureau of India - Archive|date=22 August 1967|access-date=2 February 2022}}</ref><br />28 February 1968<ref name="maj_gen">{{cite news |title=Part I-Section 4: Ministry of Defence (Army Branch) |page=369  |date=4 May 1968|url=http://egazette.nic.in/WriteReadData/1968/O-1536-1968-0018-68854.pdf|publisher=The Gazette of India}}</ref>