Balbir Singh Parus used to live with his parents in Delhi. In 1950, S. Guljar Singh Patwal came to the UK and soon he sent for his family, and they arrived in Cardiff. S. Balbir Singh Ji Parus was a Gursikh and a very hard-working man, he started work in a foundry along with his cousin until the foundry closed. Whilst working, he did a lot of sewa in the old original Gurdwara building, went through all the posts and served as the Chair as well.
When we purchased the land in Tudor Stand, we had to raise the money for the Baba Ji Hall ourselves. His hand was always out whoever we went to and by the end we collected £140,000 ourselves. In 1986, when the new Gurdwara started to build Balbir Singh became the Secretary, Gurcharan Singh Ji Bhat became the treasurer along with me as the Chair. We stayed on for 3 years till the building was finished and the Gurdwara was opened.
When he came from India Ramta and Parkash Kaur also came from India and we used to go with them to do Bhangra, Balbir was the best Bhangra performer along with Walaiti Singh and Kuldeep Singh and when I used to play the dhol until Walaiti Singh came along.
Time went on by the time all his children were married he also became of age and there nothing was wrong with him. We both were trying to meet up with each other in the Gurdwara before Xmas, but very unexpectedly he passed away on 12th December 2020.
This is why this Akhandpath also finished on the 12th December. Lots of people came from other towns and cities and our hall upstairs was full of people, relatives who came to pay their respects. I very much like to give him my very best Sardanjli as I treated him as my younger brother.
We would all like to pray to our Waheguru to carry on giving abode to our S. Balbir Singh, Parus and give lots of strength to his wife and all the sons as well as, his grand children who loved him very much and he loved them all so that they can bear his loss which will only take time to heal. Also provide the family with lots and lots of happiness. With a very heavy heart, I remain Balbir Singh Parus elder brother Jaswant Singh Jas.