"Who Donot Know This Pearl"

As I was writing articles to my blog ,seeing that one of my friend chandru contributed his writings to me. He was also so much interested in writing articles. As we discussed about this, he said I want to write article to ur web blog giving some list of great pearls of names. In those great names, he choose to write on Bhagat Singh – A great patriot of Indian History. Before publishing it, I read entire article and I said I am ready to publish this articles as this was so interesting. One more important thing I would like to say is that the articles which I am publishing, if u find interesting please leave comments so that we can improve our self .Next I don’t want to disturb u all by writing so much about this in my words please proceed further in the below article.

Bhagat Singh – The Martyr :

Bhagat Singh – A great patriot of Indian History, Who do not know Bhagat Singh, entire world know him and his greatness, his personality. We come across many articles, books , lessons ,dramas which were based on his work and his achievements .This is a small article which I wanted to share my thoughts and words about him and I am thankful my friend who gave me an opportunity to write and publish this article on his blog. About Bhagat Singh, he was born on September 27th, 1907 in the Khatkar Kalan village in the Lyallpur district of Punjab, which is now belongs to Pakistan.Sardar Kishan Singh and Vidyavati were Bhagat Singhs parents, they were greatly involved in freedom struggle. This created a great impact on Bhagat Singh’s mind and the patriotism started in his heart.

In 1916, during his schooling in DAV School in Lahore, he met with the famous political leaders Lala Lajpat Rai and Ras Bihari Bose. In 1919, he was 12 years of age, he heard that politically charged on Punjab and Bhagat Singh was led by these leaders.He was totally disturbed by the Jalianwala bagh massacre, which had resulted in nearly 1200 innocents death.Soon after the brutal incident ,he pledged to redeem his nation’s privilege by avenging the massacre.He strengthened his spirit to kick back the British rule from India.

In 1921, Bhagat Singh left his school and joined the non-cooperation movement against British rule.He was greatly disappointed, when Mahatma Gandhi said , the Non-cooperation movement against violence at chauri-chaura in Gorakhpur. He lost his faith in Non violence, took the route of violence, which he considered as the only way to gain freedom. He joined the National College in Lahore, founded by Lala Lajpat Rai. . He joined the National College in Lahore, founded by Lala lajpat Rai. This College was the centre of revolutionary activities and here he met with revolutionaries Bhagwati charan, Sukhdev and others.

Bhagat Singh ran away from his home to escape early marriage. Here, he met the revolutionary, named Ganesh Shankar vidyarthi, and learnt many things about revolutionary. He moved to Lahore, formed Naujavan Bharat Sabha and started spreading the message of revolution in Punjab. He also joined the Hindustan Republican Association at the request of Professor Vidyalankar, which was then headed by Ram Prasad Bismil and Ashfaqulla Khan. In 1928 at a revolutionaries meeting, he met Chandrasekhar azad and together formed Hindustan samajvadi prajatantra sangha, which aimed at establishing a republic India by means of an armed revolution.

A committee called Simon commission was sent to visit India from England. Its mission was to decide whether to give Poorna rajya (full freedom) or Ardha Rajya (half freedom) to India. No Indian leaders were called for the committee, this made the Indians angry and they boycotted the Simon commission. In the protest against Simon commission, Lala lajpat rai was violently lathicharged and he suffered from great injury finally led to his death. Bhagat singh decided to take revenge for Lala lajpat rai`s death by shooting the British official responsible for his death. By mistake he shot down assistant superintendant Saunders instead of inspector general Scott. He absconded from Lahore to escape from arrest.

British government took forcible measures to get the situation under control without finding the root cause for the incident. Under the Indian Defense Act, it gave power to the police to arrest protesters with suspicious movements and actions. On April 8, 1929, the act brought in the Central legislative Assembly was defeated by one vote. But the act was passed in the form of ordinance considering public interest. Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt threw bombs in the Central Assembly Hall when the assembly was in session. The bombs thrown in the Assembly Hall were weaker ones, it was dropped safely at the middle of the stage, so that it does not kill or injure anybody. Bhagat singh and Batukeshwar Dutt knew that after this act they would be arrested and punished severely, but this was done to bring awareness in people, so that they can fight against the brutality of British government and make our motherland free from slavery.
After the arrest of Bhagat singh and Batukeshwar Dutt, many revolutionaries like Sukh dev, Raj guru were also got arrested and were produced in the court. They proudly declared the intention behind the bombing act and everyone shouted with a slogan “Inquilaab sindaabad” (Long live the revolution), this brought great impact on Indians mind. Meanwhile some of the friends of Bhagat singh became approvers and the killers of sanders were revealed. During his trial, Bhagat Singh refused to employ any defence counsel. In jail, he went on hunger strike to protest the inhuman treatment of fellow-political prisoners by jail authorities. On October 7, 1930 Bhagat Singh, Sukh Dev and Raj Guru were awarded death sentence by a special tribunal for terrorist activities.

The news was spread, throughout the India like a forest fire and people came to know about the young warriors who fought bravely for their motherland and hearing about their death sentence, people could not control their impulse and their viens were roaring with fire, everywhere the protest against the cruel act of British government started. The hanging date was set on March 24, 1931. British government was frightened of backlash by the Indian people, so they made the preparations to hang them a day earlier. Many of the political leaders of India were against this decision; inspite of that it was decided to execute this decision. Even their family members were not allowed to meet them. Everybody`s heart was filled with inexpressible depression, a death atmosphere prevailed everywhere in India.

On the day of hanging, Bhagat singh, sukh dev and raj guru had a cheerful smile on their face. They were proud of giving their lives for their motherland, they were eager to lay their heads on the lap of Mother India. At last, the time came on March 23, 1931, while there was a depression in the hearts of Indians throughout India, Bhagat singh, Sukh dev and Raj guru climbed the platform of the death, kissed the rope, and they themselves put it around the neck, with the ”Bharat Mata” slogan on their lips and leaved their breath. Bhagat singh was just 23 years old, when he was hanged. It was like motherland felt proud of giving birth to such a person and took him with her forever.

Bhagat singh and his associates sacrificed their lives in the dream of a free India, where the Indians could live a perfect peaceful life and liberty. Because of the sacrifice of such great people, today we are enjoying the fruit of freedom. Bhagat singh may be not alive, but he lives in the heart of every Indians. His passion and courage towards his Motherland is stunning and he is living as a role model for every youth`s of India. Now, it is up to us, to which extent we will succeed in protecting it from the eyes of Evil people. “Bharat Mata ki Jai”.

Jai Hind,

Jai Bharath Matha

Article by Chandrashekar

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