STORY OF BHAGAT SINGH

 

Bhagat Singh along with Sukhdev Thapar , and Shivaram Rajguru  died on March 23 which is observed as Martyrs day.

Bhagat Singh was born on the 26 th September , 1907 , he grew up in a petty - bourgeois family of Sandhu Jats settled in Jullundur Doab district of Panjab.

He belonged to a generation that was to intervene between two decisive phases of the Indian national movement - the phase of the Extremism of Lal- Bal- Pal and the Gandhian phase of non violent mass action.

In 1923 Bhagat Singh joined the National College, Lahore which was founded and managed by Lala Lajpat Rai and Bhai Parmanand.

The college was set up as an alternative to the institutions run by the government , bringing to the field of education the idea of swadeshi.

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In 1924 in Kanpur , he became a member of the Hindustan Republican Association , started by Sachindranath Sanyal a year earlier . The main organiser of the Association was Chandra Shekar Azad and  Bhagat Singh became very close to him.

He was member of the HRA that Bhagat Singh began to take the philosophy of bomb seriously.

Armed revolution was understood to be the only weapon with which to fight British Imperialism . In 1925 Bhagat Singh returned to Lahore and with in the next year he and his colleagues started a militant youth organization called the Naujawan Bharat Sabha.

In April 1926 , he established contact with Sohan Singh Josh and through him the Workers  and peasants party which brought out monthly magazine Kirti in Punjabi. For next year Bhagat Singh worked with Josh and joined the editorial board of Kirti.

In 1927 , he was first arrested on charges of association with the Kakori Case accused for an article written under the Pseudonym Vidrohi  (Rebel) . He was also accused of being responsible for a bomb explosion at Lahore during the Dussehra fair.

In 1928 Bhagat Singh  changed the name of   Hindustan Republican Association to Hindustan Socilaist Reublic Association (HSRA) . In 1930 , When Azad was shot, te HSRA collapsed.

Naujawan Bharat Sabha replaced HSRA in Punjab.