KMMMT-Gen.Secretary                              

General Secretary : S. Bachan Singh Saral

"The city’s most well-informed Sikh historian and journalist" - Barry O'Brien of The Telegraph wrote in 'Salute to our super Sikhs'.

Bachan Singh Saral did his BA in the year 1957 from Banga Basi College, Calcutta University. He also completed a three year diploma course in Mechanical and joined the Indian Railways. Writing was his passion and that brought the then Home Minister, Giani Jail Singh to his door-steps. Gianiji motivated and influenced him to leave his railway job and to join journalism as a full time occupation. And then for him there was no looking back.

He has been conferred Bang Bhushan honour by Hon’ble Chief Minister of West Bengal, Smt. Mamata Banerjee in year 2014. Punjabi University, Patiala has also honoured him for his contribution in spreading the awareness about Maa Boli Punjabi.

Bachan Singh Saral is a frequent writer in many journals published from Punjab. Jag Bani, Ajit, The Punjabi Tribune, to name a few. He has also authored books as Brief History of Hisorical Gurdwara’s of Bangladesh and the The Incident of Komagata Maru of Budge Budge Ghat, Kolkata, etc.

Bachan Singh Saral has the unique distinction of being an elected Vice-president of Calcutta Press Club for a long 11 years. He was also Editor of Daily Desh Darpan, Daily Navi Prabhat and Kolkata representative of Daily Vishwamitra (Hindi-Calcutta) & Daily Ajit (Punjabi-Jalandhar).

Bachan Singh Saral is the Secretary of Komagata Maru Martyrs’ Memorial Trust, Kolkata. He is also General Secretary of Bangladesh Gurdwara Management Board, Kolkata and President of Gurdwara Sikh Sangat, Howrah.