Activism was in his blood. We need more movies like satluj which shed light on more such forgotten heroes
He had ancestral links with warriors who fought with Shaheed Tara Singh Wan. His grandfather, Bhai Harnam Singh, was a core member of the Komagata Maru (Guru Nanak Jahaz) fleet that was denied entry into Canada and faced jail when he returned to Punjab by the british, it is said when the Canadian forces were planning to or had shot at the ship, Bhai Harnam Singh had shot multiple rounds in the air to warn the Canadian Forces. After so-called independence Zial Singh (Punjab CM) tried to give pensions to those families that were on the ship, and when government workers had come to Khalra Jis house to let help his family complete the documentation, Bhai Jaswant Singh Khalra told his father to reject pension as their is no mull (price) that you can put on the sacrifices their grandfather and other Sikhs had made. Later Bhai Khalra Ji continues this warrior spirit by creating Khalistan Liberation Movement, Liberation Khalistan Magazine, and the human rights advocacy of finding bodies of those innocent Sikhs killed in fake encounters.