Saifuddin Kitchlew, born on 15 January 1888, was an
Indian freedom fighter, barrister, politician and later a leader of the peace
movement. A member of Indian National Congress, he first became Punjab
Provincial Congress Committee (Punjab PCC) head and later the General Secretary
of the AICC in 1924. He is most remembered for the protests in Punjab after the
implementation of Rowlatt Act in March 1919, after which on 10 April, he and
another leader Satyapal, were secretly sent to Dharamsala. A public protest
rally against their arrest and that of Gandhi, on 13 April 1919 at Jallianwala
Bagh, Amritsar, led to the infamous Jallianwala Bagh massacre. He was also a
founding member of Jamia Millia Islamia. He was awarded the Stalin Peace Prize
(now known as Lenin Peace Prize) in 1952.
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