Shaheed Bhagat Singh: a story of India's most beloved Freedom fighter |School project on Bhagat Singh
Shaheed Bhagat Singh: The story of India's most beloved Freedom fighter | The Legend of Bhagat Singh
Bhagat Singh, the most famous freedom Fighter of India
Inquilab Zindabad.....
The man who coined this phrase that became the slogan of India’s armed freedom struggle
The man who was not only a freedom fighter but also a voracious reader
A legendary revolutionary who died for the country when he was just 23 years and 6 months old but his inspiring actions continued to stir the desire for freedom.
Let’s know about a legend who marched to gallows with a smile on his face.
Shaheed Bhagat Singh
Born on September 28, 1907, to a Sikh family, in the Lyallpur district of the Punjab Province in British India (present-day Pakistan), He was named as Bhagwanvala (child of God) by his grandmother.
He had patriotism in his blood. His father Kishan Singh and his two uncles were freedom fighters and were released on the day of his birth.
From the young age of 8, he used to talk about growing guns in the fields, so that he can fight and drive the British out of the country.
When Bhagat Singh was just 12 years old, he bunked school to visit the Jallianwala Bagh, a day after the British massacred innocent Indians. He was so moved and shattered, that he collected the mud, still wet with the blood in a jar and used to salute it every day.
Bhagat Singh was a multilingual, fluent in English, Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi, and Gurumukhi. He had also studied Sanskrit, Persian and knew a little bit of Bengali. At a very early age, he was attracted towards socialism and socialist revolutions led by Lenin and soon started reading about them. Although born in a Sikh family, he was an atheist.
When marriage was proposed, Singh refused saying “If I were to marry in slave India, my bride shall only be death”. He moved to Kanpur and joined Hindustan Socialist Republican Association (HSRA) and also worked for a news paper “Pratap”.
In order to avenge the death of Lala Lajpat Rai, He along with another revolutionary decided to assassinate James A. Scott, who had ordered lathi charge and personally assaulted Rai. However, in a case of mistaken identity, John Saunders, the Assistant Superintendent of Police was shot dead. Bhagat Singh managed to escape.
Later on Singh along with other revolutionaries exploded a bomb inside the Central Legislative Assembly. The actual intention was to get themselves arrested so that they could use their appearance in the court as a stage to publicise their cause.
After their arrest it was found that he was also guilty of killing Saunders and was sentenced to death.
In the jail, he went on a hunger strike for 116 days to protest against the inhuman treatment and inequality between British prisoners and Indian prisoners.
Bhagat Singh asked that instead of hanging him he must be shot dead, but it was not considered by the British. Finally, he was sentenced to be hanged on 24 March 1931, but it was brought forward by 11 hours to 23 March 1931 at 7 o’ clock in the evening. He embraced death with a smile, when the prisoners chanted Inqulab Zindabad (Long Live the Revolution).
Bhagat Singh influenced the youths and filled their hearts with the fire of patriotism. Having a leader like him was one of the biggest reasons India got independence.
"It is easy to kill individuals but you cannot kill the ideas. Great empires crumbled while the ideas survived...” - Bhagat Singh
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