Bhagat Singh: The True Revolutionary

Bhagat Singh was a great revolutionary of India. He was born in the year 1907 on 27 September in the village of Banga, Punjab. His father’s name was Sardar Kishan Singh and his mother was Vidyavati Kumar.

On April 8, 1929, Bhagat Singh, along with another revolutionary, Batukeshwar Dutt, carried out a daring act of protest against British colonial rule in India. They threw non-lethal smoke bombs in the Central Legislative Assembly in Delhi, which was a symbolic act of defiance against oppressive British policies. The purpose of the bombing was not to cause harm but to draw attention to the unjust laws and policies imposed by the British government.

Interestingly, Bhagat Singh was a multilingual person, fluent in Hindi, Bengali, and Punjabi languages. He also founded the ‘Naujawan Bharat Sabha’, whose objective was to gain independence from the Britishers. Translated as the “Youth Society of India,” the Sabha was a platform for young revolutionaries who were deeply committed to the cause of Indian independence. It played a crucial role in mobilising and organising young Indians against British oppression. It also served as a forum for ideological discussions, strategic planning, and the dissemination of revolutionary ideas. Members of the Sabha were impassioned by the vision of a free and sovereign India and were willing to undertake direct action to achieve this goal.

On 23 March, 1931 at around 7:33 in the evening, Bhagat Singh and his counterparts, Rajguru, and Sukhdev were hanged for the murder of Officer J.P. Saunders in the city of Lahore (then in India). Saunders had been mistakenly killed as part of a plot to kill the police chief responsible for the death of Lala Lajpat Rai, an influential Indian writer and politician.