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Pt. Mool Raj Sharma

Pt. Mool Raj Sharma was a well known freedom fighter & social activist of Punjab, India. He was born in the year 1890 and was a contemprary of Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru, Ex. Prime Minister of India. He was born in the village Khankhana of Nawanshahar District now known as Shaheed Bhagat Singh City. The village Khankhana was named after Abdul Rahim Khankhana, one of the Navratan of the mughal empteor the great Akbar. Pt. Mool Raj Sharma joined independence movement at a very young age. He reamined imprisoned for 8 years in the Miawali Jail (Now in Pakistan) during the independence struggle of India. He shifted to Jalandhar City in the year 1920 & started a social reform organisation as ‘Vidhwa Vivah Sahaik Sabha’ in the year 1924. The organisation provided shelter to the young widows at the time when being a widow was considered as a curse in the Indian society. The home for the widows, popularly known as ‘Widhwa Ashram’ at that times not only provided shelter to the widows but also contributed in the re marriage of young widows so that they can lead a better life. This very contribution to the society made him known as Raja Ram Mohan Rai of Punjab.