Bhagat Singh Biography
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Bhagat
Singh was born on September 28, 1907 at Banga village of Lyallpur district in
West Punjab. He was from a very reputed Sikh family. His father and
uncles participated in the freedom movement. This created a positive influence
on Bhagat Singh. Bhagat Singh was a very brilliant student. He was also very
disciplined. When he was in the 9th class, he jumped into the
Non-Co-operation Movement launched by Gandhiji. He studied at the D.A.V.
College, Lahore. There he organised a students’ union. Many nationalist leaders
like Lala Lajpat Rai and Bhai Parmanand were teachers in that college. They
influenced Bhagat Singh deeply. In 1923, he joined the Secret Revolutionary
Party. He became its leading figure very soon. In 1925, he initiated the
militant youth organisation, the Naujawan Bharat Sabha of the
Punjab.
His
family members forced him to marry. So, he ran away from home and came to
Kanpur. He joined a newspaper ‘Pratap’ run by Ganesh Shankar
Vidyarthi. In Kanpur, he also came in contact with another well known
revolutionary, Chandra Shekhar Azad. Bhagat Singh believed that India can gain
independence only by a revolution. Bhagat Singh, Azad and Sukh Dev
established Naujawan Bharat Sabha in 1924. He also worked in the
newspaper ‘Arjun’ in Delhi. He worked there under a pseudonym (fictitious
name). He worked for some time as an editorial staff of a social
journal ‘Kirti’.
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Bhagat
Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev
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Bhagat
Singh was more of an activist than a mere promising intellectual. In 1926, he
was involved in the abortive (unsuccessful) plan of Azad and Kundanlal to
rescue the prisoners of Kakori case. Lala Lajpat Rai succumbed to the injuries
he received during the anti-Simon Commission agitation. The Hindustan Socialist
Republican Association (H.S.R.A.) decided to avenge his death. Bhagat Singh
shot and killed Saunders (Saunders was responsible for the police attack on
Lala Lajpat Rai) on December 17, 1928. He was aided by Rajguru and Azad.
Bhagat
Singh was an irresistible speaker endowed with biting sarcasm. His tactfulness
in dealing with individuals was compensated by his alert instinct, his
discriminating sense of history, his finely tuned fund of principles and his
hunger for knowledge.
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When the
party resolved to demonstrate the national disgust against the alien rulers,
Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutta exploded bombs in the Central Legislative
Assembly on April 8, 1929. They were arrested and sentenced to transportation
for life.
When the
Lahore Conspiracy Case began in July 1929, Bhagat Singh appeared as the main
accused and received the death sentence. On March 23, 1931, Bhagat Singh
together with Rajguru and Sukhdev was hanged. They showed no sign of fear of
death and kissed the noose chanting ‘Inquilab Zindabad’. Bhagat Singh died
with his comrades on the gallows, but his legend grew.
Bhagat
Singh became famous as ‘Shaheed-e-Azam’. His martyrdom gave new momentum
to the freedom struggle of India and showed a new path to the younger
generation of the country. His slogan‘Inquilab Zindabad’ swayed his
countrymen and mesmerised the youth. The entire nation recalls his sacrifice with
deep gratitude even today.
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Hindustan
Socialist Republican Association (H.S.R.A)
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The
Hindustan Socialist Republican Association was formed in 1928 with men like
Chandra ShekharAzad, Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev, Ramprasad Bismil as its members.
The H.S.R.A. was well organised andhad provincial units in Bengal, Bihar,
U.P., Delhi, Punjab and even Madras. The H.S.R.A. had three (3)main
objectives :
1.
To educate the masses about the uselessness of the non-violent methods of
Gandhiji.
2.
Need for Direct Action and revolution to throw out the British.
3.
To substitute British imperialism in India by a federated Republic of the
united states of India.
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