Giani Ditt Singh, a scholar, a poet, an editor and an eminent Singh Sabha reformer, was born on April 21, 1853, in village Kalaur of district Fatehgarh Sahib. Neither the Punjab government nor the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) organized any function in Kalaur or any other part of the state to remember Giani Ditt Singh on his 155th birth anniversary.
About Singh Sabha Movement
This was the origin of the Singh Sabha movement. The society described itself as Singh Sabha, founded in Amritsar 1872, it set out to protect the Sikhism from invading interests. The Singh Sabha held meeting and led protest marches against the Hindu ‘anti-Sikh’ orators.