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Shaheed
Bhagatsingh
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At
the age of 23, if anyone was smiling just before he was
being hanged to death, it was Shaheed Bhagat Singh. He was
born September 27, 1907 in the village Banga of Layalpur
to Mata Vidyavati and Sardar Kishan Singh. His uncle, Sardar
Ajit Singh, as well as his father, were great freedom fighters,
so Bhagat Singh grew up in a patriotic atmosphere. Ajit
Singh established the Indian Patriots' Association, along
with Syed Haidar Raza, to organize the peasants against
the Chenab Canal Colony Bill. He also established the secret
organization, the Bharat Mata Society. At an early age,
Bhagat Singh started dreaming of uprooting the British empire.
Never afraid of fighting during his childhood, he thought
of "growing guns in the fields," so that he could
fight against the British. The Ghadar Movement left a deep
imprint on his mind. Kartar Sing Sarabha, hanged at the
age of 19, became his hero. The massacre at Jallianwala
Bagh on April 13, 1919 drove him to go to Amritsar, where
he kissed the earth sanctified by the martyrs' blood and
brought back home a little of the soaked soil. He studied
in the D.A.V. School in Lahore. At the age of 16, he used
to wonder why so many Indians could not drive away these
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In
search of revolutionary groups and ideas, he met Sukhdev
and Rajguru. Bhagat Singh, along with the help of Chandrashekhar
Azad, formed the Hindustan Socialist Republican Army (HSRA).
The aim of this Indian revolutionary movement was now
defined as not only to make India independent, but also
to create "a socialist India."
During
the Simon Commission, Sher-e-Punjab Lala Lajpat Rai was
wounded and died later. To avenge his death, Bhagat Singh
and Rajguru killed Mr. Saunders (one of the deputy officers
in connection with the Simon Commission).
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When the British government promulgated the two bills "Trade
Union Dispute Bill" and "Public Safety Bill"
which Bhagat Singh and his party thought were Black Laws
aimed at curbing citizens' freedom and civil liberties,
they decided to oppose these bills by throwing a bomb in
the Central Assembly Hall (which is now Lok Sabha). However,
things changed, and the Britishers arrested Bhagat Singh
and his friends on April 8, 1929.
He and his friends wanted to be shot dead, since they were
termed as prisoners of war. Their request was not fulfilled,
and on March 23, 1931, Bhagat Singh, Shivram Rajguru, and
Sukhdev were hanged to death. |
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This
man's only mission in life was to see his country free
from British rule. He did his best and when he was being
led to the gallows, he was satisfied that he had lived
up to his principles, irrespective of the consequences.
The only thing that made him sad was that he couldn't
do more for his country.
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