Teja Singh Sutantar

Teja Singh Sutantar (16 July 1901 − 12 April 1973), also by his sobriquet Swatantar (lit. 'Free'), was a national revolutionary of India who fought for the independence of India from the British Raj and for the liberation of Punjab peasantry from the clutches of feudal lords. He was a member of the 5th Lok Sabha from Sangrur constituency as a CPI candidate. He also was Member of Punjab Legislative Assembly from 1937 to 1945 and member of Punjab Legislative Council from 1964 to 1969.

He became actively involved in the revolutionary activities during the 1920s when the Ghadar Party was preparing for the second attempt for the overthrow of British government. Sutantar was sent to Turkey in 1924 where he joined the Turkish military academy to attain military knowledge. In and out of prison several times, Sutantar was among the top national Communist leaders jailed by the British administration in the Deoli Detention Centre in the early-1940's.