Anand Kishore, Mehta, son of Radha Kishan, Khatri, of Bazar Wachhowali, Lahore City. Educated up to the Middle standard at the D.A.V. School, Lahore. After leaving the school, he kept a hosiery shop, but later became Secretary of the Anjuman-i-Muhibban-i-Watan and took a very active part in the meetings held at the Bharat Mata Office. He then joined the late Lala Lajpat Rai and Ajit Singh (A-ll) in their lecturing tours in 1907 and was arrested in a riot case at Lahore, was sent up for trial but was acquitted. He was an associate of Kishan Singh and the late Sufi Amba Parshad and with the latter went to Nepal during the period he was on bail in :he riot case at Lahore. He continued to be a political worker and interested in the Bharat Mata schemes. He was initiated into the revolutionary plots of the Ghadr Party and helped to dispose of the stolen property in the Ludhiana dacoities. He was sent for trial in the Lahore Conspiracy Case but was discharged. His activities being unabated, he was restricted under the Defense Rules in August 1915, to Chaubara village in the Muzaffargarh district, followed by transfers on 3 occasions on account of his growing influence and objectionable activities. He was released under the Royal Amnesty in January 1920. Since his release he became an active Congress worker and dabbled in every form of agitation against the Government and was associated with some of the most dangerous extremists in the Province. He took part in the Non-co-operation movement in 1921 and in 1924 was on the Working Committee of the Provincial Congress Committee. In October 1926 he was elected President of the Lahore City Congress Committee. In July 1927 he presented to Sardar Kharak Singh an address of welcome containing references to the sacrifices of the Sikhs, the abdication of the Maharaja of Nabha and incidents of the Martial Law regime. In 1928 he took a prominent part in organising propaganda for the boycott of the Simon Commission. He is an advocate of violence which is evidenced by the speech which he delivered at the Punjab Political Conference held at Amritsar on 17th April 1928 and which he openly advocated at a meeting of the Naujawan Bharat Sabha held on December 16th, 1928, to celebrate the "Kakori Day”. He was consequently convicted to one year's R.I. and a fine of Rs. 300 or in default 3 months further imprisonment under Section 124-A, I. P. C., but on appeal the sentence was reduced to that already undergone with a fine of Rs. 500 or in default 3 months, further R. 1. After his release he attended two public meetings held at Lahore to sympathize with Bhagat Singh and B. K. Dutt. He was elected a member of the Working Committee of the Lahore Congress in 1929 and in the following year rarely missed any meeting convened by the Congress Committee, Hindustani Seva Dal and the Lahore Conspiracy Case Defense Committee. He was finally arrested on 16th November 1930 under Sections 17 (1) and (2) of C. L. A. A., in connection with Jawahir Lal Day celebrations and sentenced to 2!4 months' S. I. and a fine of Rs. 25 or in default 2 weeks' S. I. more. He was the prime mover in advertising Bhagat Singh Memorial Fund and in April 1931 was elected General and Financial Secretary of this fund. He was the moving spirit of the Workers’ Home, Lahore. He is at present running a book seller's shop inside Bhati gate, Lahore. Is a zealous political worker, and associates with Congress workers of Lahore.