Bhagat Singh, revolutionary
hero of the Indian independence movement, was martyred on 23 March, 1931
in Lahore.
Bhagat
Singh attended Dayanand Anglo Vedic High School, which was operated
by Arya Samaj (a reform sect of modern Hinduism), and then National
College, both located in Lahore. He began to protest British rule in India
while still a youth and soon fought for national independence. He also worked
as a writer and editor in Amritsar for Punjabi- and Urdu-language
newspapers espousing Marxist theories. He is credited with popularizing the
catchphrase “Inquilab zindabad” (“Long live the revolution”).
In 1928
Bhagat Singh plotted with others to kill the police chief responsible for the
death of Indian writer and politician Lala Lajpat Rai, one of the founders
of National College, during a silent march opposing the Simon Commission. Instead, in a case of mistaken identity,
junior officer J.P. Saunders was killed, and Bhagat Singh had to flee Lahore to
escape the death penalty. In 1929 he and an associate lobbed a bomb at the
Central Legislative Assembly in Delhi to protest the implementation of
the Defence of India Act and then surrendered. He was hanged at
the age of 23 for the murder of Saunders.
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