Who was bhagat singh

Bhagat Singh 27 September [ 2 ] [ a ] — 23 March was an Indian anti-colonial revolutionary [ 3 ] who participated in the mistaken murder of a junior British police officer in December [ 4 ] in what was to be retaliation for the death of an Indian nationalist. In December , Bhagat Singh and an associate, Shivaram Rajguru , both members of a small revolutionary group, the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association also Army, or HSRA , shot dead a year-old British police officer, John Saunders, in Lahore , Punjab , in what is today Pakistan , mistaking Saunders, who was still on probation, for the British senior police superintendent , James Scott , whom they had intended to assassinate.

When was bhagat singh born

As Saunders exited a police station on a motorcycle, he was felled by a single bullet fired from across the street by Rajguru, a marksman. After having escaped, Bhagat Singh and his associates used pseudonyms to publicly announce avenging Lajpat Rai's death, putting up prepared posters that they had altered to show John Saunders as their intended target instead of James Scott.

Surfacing again in April , he and another associate, Batukeshwar Dutt , set off two low-intensity homemade bombs among some unoccupied benches of the Central Legislative Assembly in Delhi. They showered leaflets from the gallery on the legislators below, shouted slogans, and allowed the authorities to arrest them.

Bhagat singh death

Awaiting trial, Singh gained public sympathy after he joined fellow defendant Jatin Das in a hunger strike , demanding better prison conditions for Indian prisoners, the strike ending in Das's death from starvation in September He became a popular folk hero after his death. Jawaharlal Nehru wrote about him: "Bhagat Singh did not become popular because of his act of terrorism but because he seemed to vindicate, for the moment, the honour of Lala Lajpat Rai, and through him of the nation.

He became a symbol; the act was forgotten, the symbol remained, and within a few months each town and village of the Punjab, and to a lesser extent in the rest of northern India, resounded with his name. Although many of Singh's associates, as well as many Indian anti-colonial revolutionaries, were also involved in daring acts and were either executed or died violent deaths, few came to be lionised in popular art and literature as did Singh, who is sometimes referred to as the Shaheed-e-Azam "Great martyr" in Urdu and Punjabi.

Bhagat Singh was born into a Punjabi Jat Sikh [ 17 ] family on 27 September [ 2 ] in the village of Banga in the Lyallpur district of the Punjab in what was then British India and is today Pakistan; he was the second of seven children—four sons, and three daughters—born to Vidyavati and her husband Kishan Singh Sandhu. Police became concerned with Singh's influence on the youth and arrested him in May on the pretext that he had been involved in a bombing that had taken place in Lahore in October He was released on a surety of Rs.

In , the British government set up the Simon Commission to report on the political situation in India.