Martyrdom Day Of Bhagat Singh
March 23, 2017
Bhagat Singh a brave young charismatic Indian revolutionary who was born on 27 or 28 September 1907 was convicted and hanged on March 23, 1931 when he was just 23 years old for shooting a British police officer which made him a folk lore of the Indian independence movement
He was born into a family of politically active people. Bhagat Sing’s thirst for Indian independence was started when he was 12 years old. He was disappointed and unhappy with Gandhi’s philosophy of non-violence. So he joined the Young Revolutionary Movement and started campaigning against the British Rule in India.
Singh was attracted to anarchism and communism and got fascinated by the teachings of Mikhail Bakunin and read Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky.
Singh along with revolutionaries like Shivaram Rajguru, Sukhdev Thapar, and Chandrashekhar Azad conspired to kill Scot whom they believed the reason for Lala Lajpat Rai’s death, however by mistake they shot John P. Saunders an Assistant Superintendent of Police.
Bhagat Singh refused to move a mercy petition and wrote in his last letter ” I have been arrested while waging a war. For me there can be no gallows. Put me into the mouth of a cannon and blow me off” and finally Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev were sentenced to death in the Lahore conspiracy case and ordered to be hanged on 24 March 1931. The schedule was moved forward by 11 hours and the three were hanged on 23 March 1931 at 7:30 pm in the Lahore jail.
“Bhagat Singh had become the symbol of the new awakening among the youths” – Subash Chandra Bose
“He was a clean fighter who faced his enemy in the open field … he was like a spark that became a flame in a short time and spread from one end of the country to the other dispelling the prevailing darkness everywhere” – Jawaharlal Nehru
“These heroes had conquered the fear of death. Let us bow to them a thousand times for their heroism” – Mahatma Gandhi
He was voted the “Greatest Indian” in a poll by the Indian magazine India Today in 2008, ahead of Bose and Gandhi.
Source: www.en.wikipedia.org
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