new Delhi. ‘Tu na rona ke tu hai Bhagat Singh’s mother, even if you die, you will not die.’ This is not just a few words but a fact. Even after 91 years, Bhagat Singh, including Rajguru and Sukhdev are alive in everyone’s veins. As long as India and Britain exist on this land, the name of Bhagat Singh will be recorded in the pages of history. This is because for the independence of India, the red mother who gave her life in the name of the country at a very young age. Shaheed-e-Azam Bhagat Singh whose 91st death anniversary is today. On this day, March 23, 1931, he was hanged by the British government along with his comrades Rajguru and Sukhdev for throwing bombs in the assembly.
Journey of Shaheed-e-Azam Bhagat Singh
Bhagat Singh was born on 27 September 1907 at Banga in Lyallpur district. This place is now part of Pakistan. Like every Indian, Bhagat Singh’s family was also a supporter of the country’s independence. His uncles Ajit Singh and Swan Singh were also votaries of India’s independence and were senior members of the Gadar Party under the leadership of Kartar Singh Sarabha.
The presence of revolutionaries in his house from childhood had a very deep impact on Bhagat Singh. The effect of both of them was that they started hating the British since childhood. At the same time, at the age of 14, Bhagat Singh burnt his government school books and clothes. After which the posters of Bhagat Singh started appearing in the villages.
After this, the Jallianwala Bagh massacre on 13 April 1919 left an indelible mark on Bhagat Singh. After this, Bhagat Singh left the National College of Lahore and joined Mahatma Gandhi’s non-violence movement in 1920. In this movement, Gandhiji was boycotting foreign goods.
Differences with Mahatma Gandhi
At the same time, Bhagat Singh was also a member of the non-violence movement run by Mahatma Gandhi and the Indian National Conference. But after the Chaura-Chaura massacre in 1921, when Gandhiji did not support the Satyagrahis involved in the violence, Bhagat Singh had a difference of opinion with Gandhiji after this incident. After this, Bhagat Singh joined the Ghadar Dal formed under the leadership of Chandrashekhar Azad in the movement against the British. He also played an important role in the robbery of the government treasury on August 9, 1925.
Kakori incident and central assembly blast
Let us tell you that this incident is famous in history as Kakori incident. In this he was accompanied by many veteran revolutionaries like Ramprasad Bismil, Chandrashekhar Azad. Bhagat Singh, along with Rajguru, had also killed the British officer JP Saunders, who was an assistant superintendent of police in Lahore, on 17 December 1928. Chandrashekhar Azad had given him full help in carrying out this murder. Then he threw bombs and pamphlets in the auditorium of the Central Assembly on 8 April 1929 to ‘wake up the British government from sleep’. Along with Bhagat Singh, his revolutionary friend Batukeshwar Dutt was also involved in this incident. And this place was the auditorium of the then Central Assembly of British India located on Alipore Road, Delhi. They were arrested.
Then in the Lahore Conspiracy Case, Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev and Rajguru were sentenced to death and Batukeshwar Dutt was given life imprisonment. After this, Bhagat Singh was hanged along with Sukhdev and Rajguru at seven o’clock in the evening of 23 March 1931. These three lions laughed and sacrificed their lives for the country.
Bhagat Singh a writer
Let us also tell an interesting thing that Bhagat Singh Singh was not only a voter of independence. But Bhagat Singh was also a good speaker, reader, writer and journalist. He was a great scholar of Hindi, English, Sanskrit, Punjabi, Urdu, Bengali and Irish languages. At the age of 23, he studied, read and studied the revolutions of Ireland, France and Russia very deeply. If seen, Bhagat Singh was the first spokesperson of socialism in India.
Bhagat Singh spent almost two years of his life in jail. But despite being in the harsh torture of prison, his love for books remained as before. He had been writing articles in jail and conveying his revolutionary ideas to his colleagues. The articles written by him and the letters written to the family are still a mirror of his great thoughts.
He wrote and edited for several magazines. Not only this, he also edited two newspapers named ‘Akali’ and ‘Kirti’. Several compilations of his works have also been published. Among them are ‘Jail Notebook of a Martyr, Sardar Bhagat Singh: Letters and Documents, Complete Documents of Bhagat Singh’ etc.