Mohali, June 10 :    Mohali, June 10:  Punjab's Doctor Death is now preaching life. Forsaking his days in the eighties as the once-dreaded chief of the Sohan Singh Panthic Committee that controlled terrorists and is said to have ordered many a massacre in the state, the 87-year-old Sohan Singh now plays the good doctor, advising people on how to live longer. 'Let us talk on how one can work towards increasing one's life span,' he says, politely turning down questions on Khalistan, a demand he had nurtured when militancy was at its peak. 'Everyone who comes to me wants to speak about terrorism and my alleged role in the entire affair. But let me reveal that my name was used. I think I know the people who used my name to spread terror,' Singh says. Speaking reluctantly on the era of terrorism, the former Khalistan ideologue termed the arrest of Khalistan Commando Force chief Wassan Singh Zaffarwal and the willingness of London-based self-styled president of the Council of Khalistan Jagjit Singh Chauhan to return to India as 'political'. Since elections could be announced any moment, 'things are on the boil. Some more such people may surrender', he said. 'The Khalistan movement has run out of steam. If people like Paramjit Singh Panjwar or Zaffarwal want to come back, it will not make any difference. I have no advice for them now. It is for them to chalk their future course of action,' Singh added. He revealed that the Khalistan movement died the day terrorist outfits refused to heed his advice to contest elections in 1992. 'The decision was suicidal. The Khalistan movement simply petered out,' he added, confirming that the Akalis had accepted his arguments and boycotted the Lok Sabha polls in 1990. Singh, a former Punjab health services director with many firsts to his credit, said Pakistan had exploited the Khalistanis. 'Their (Khalistanis') mission no longer generates the passion as witnessed earlier and it has been proved by the purposeless lives Panjwar and Zaffarwal have been living abroad,' he reminisces. Singh, too, had remained in hiding for eight years after Operation Bluestar and was arrested in 1993. He denied he had fled to Pakistan or Nepal as the police believe. 'I was here all the time,' he said, adding, that the demand for Khalistan is not likely to die down. On the political scenario in the state, Sohan Singh feared that the Congress could storm back to power if the Akali-BJP government failed to gauge the mood of the people. 'I feel chief minister Parkash Singh Badal is a true Akali. He was one of the few members of the party who did not sell out to the Centre when the going got tough for the party in the state. The Centre had tried hard to purchase Akali leaders.