BHAGAT SINGH

THE

SHAHEED

WHY –”SHAHEED”

Bhagat Singh ) was an Indian freedom

fighter, considered to be one of the most

famous revolutionaries of the Indian

independence movement. For this reason,

he is often referred to as Shaheed Bhagat

Singh (the word shaheed means “martyr").

Singh’s profile

Place of birth:Khatkar Kalan village near Banga in the Lyallpur district .

Date of birth: September 28,1907

Place of death: Lahore,Punjab,British India

Family background: Patriotic Sikh family.

Contribution of the family to the freedom struggle: Father & both the uncles(Ajit Singh and Swaran Singh) were part of the Ghadr party led by Kartar Singh Sarbha.

Movement: Indian Independence Movement

Favourite poet : Allama Iqbal(Muhammad Iqbal )

Organisations:1. Naujawan Bharat Sabha

2. Hindustan Republican Association

3 .Kirti kissan party

What made Bhagat to join the

struggle at teen age?

• As a child, he was deeply affected by the Jalianwal Bagh Massacre that took place in Punjab in 1919. When Mahatma Gandhi started the Non-Cooperation Movement in 1920, he became an active participant at the age of 13. He had great hopes that Gandhi would bring freedom in India. But he was disappointed when Gandhi called off this movement following the Chauri Chaura riot in 1922. At this point he had openly defied the British and had followed Gandhi's wishes by burning his government-school books and any British-imported clothing.

The early spark

Born to a family which had earlier been involved in revolutionary activities against the British Raj in India, Bhagat Singh, as a teenager, had studied European revolutionary movements .

He became involved in numerous revolutionary organizations. He quickly rose in the ranks of the Hindustan Republican Association (HRA) and became one of its leaders, converting it to the HSRA .

He was noticed by a majority people during his 63-days fast in the jail.

The Beginning

Bhagat ran from his house at an early age

to avoid child marriage.

He became a member of ‘Naujawan Bharat

Sabha ‘.

He also joined ‘Hindustan Republican

Association’.

Bhagat Singh was the secretary of the ing

of various revolutionaries from across India

was called at Delhi .

The capture and hanging of the main HRA

Leaders also allowed him and Sukhdev to

be quickly promoted to higher ranks in the

party.

When bhagat eyewitnessed Lala Lajpat

Rais death, he vowed revenge.

A act was passed by the brithish

government for the well being of their

subjects against Bhagat singh the

revolutionary.But HSRA oppossed it and

planned to bomb the assembly.

Shortly after his arrest and trial for the Assembly bombing, the British came to know of his involvement in the murder of J. P. Saunders. Bhagat Singh, Rajguru, and Sukhdev were charged with the murder. Bhagat Singh decided to use the court as a tool to publicize his cause for the independence of India

It is believed that he had knowledge of the Kakori trian robbery.

One of the most popular ones is that Mahatma Gandhi had an opportunity to stop Singh's execution but did not. A variation on this theory is that Gandhi actively conspired with the British to have Singh executed. Gandhi's supporters say that Gandhi did not have enough influence with the British to stop the execution, much less arrange it. Furthermore, Gandhi's supporters assert that Singh's role in the independence movement was no threat to Gandhi's role as its leader, and so Gandhi would have no reason to want him dead.

FACTS

Bhagat Singh

"The aim of life is no more to control the mind,

but to develop it harmoniously; not to achieve

salvation here after, but to make the best use

of it here below; and not to realise truth,

beauty and good only in contemplation, but

also in the actual experience of daily life;

social progress depends not upon the

ennoblement of the few but on the enrichment

of democracy; universal brotherhood can be

achieved only when there is an equality of

opportunity - of opportunity in the social,

political and individual life." — from Bhagat

Singh's prison diary.

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