Shaheed Bhagat Singh Jayanti 2022: Bhagat Singh was a brave Indian revolutionary. He was born on September 27, 1907 in the village of Banga in the Lyallpur district of Punjab, which was then British India and today Pakistan. He was sentenced to death in March 1931 for the murders of John Saunders and Channan Singh. In an act of vengeance for the murder of an Indian nationalist, he took part in the wrongful murder of a young British police officer. Later, after participating in a largely symbolic bombing of the Delhi Central Legislative Assembly and going on a hunger strike in prison, he became popular throughout the Punjab region due to the sympathetic coverage in Indian-owned newspapers, and was hanged at his age. After. 23, he became a martyr and folk hero in northern India.
Jawaharlal Nehru remarked about him, “Bhagat Singh became popular not because of his act of terrorism, but because he earned the respect of Lala Lajpat Rai, and through him, to the nation, he became a symbol of the act. Forgotten, the symbol remained, and within a few months, every town and village in Punjab, and to a lesser extent, the rest of northern India, resonated with his name.”
On the occasion of his 115th birth anniversary, let’s take a look at the inspirational things he said:
- Revolution is an inseparable right of mankind. Freedom is the indestructible birthright of all. Labor is the real sustainer of society.
- Let the sun not pass in its course to a land more free, happier, more beautiful than this country.
- They can kill me, but they cannot kill my thoughts. They can crush my body, but they will not crush my soul.
- I am full of ambition and hope and charm in life. But I can give up everything in times of need.
- No one should interpret the word ‘revolution’ in its literal sense. Various meanings and significance of the term have been attributed according to the interests of those who use or misuse the term. For established agencies of exploitation, it conjures up a sense of terror drenched in blood. For revolutionaries, this is a sacred phrase.
- Bombs and pistols do not lead to revolution. The sword of revolution is sharpened on the stone of ideas.
- If the deaf want to hear, the sound must be very loud.
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