“It’s easy to kill individuals but you cannot kill the ideas”.
Remembering Bhagat Singh, the immortal and courageous revolutionary on his 113th birth anniversary.
Bhagat Singh was an Indian socialist revolutionary whose two acts of dramatic violence against the British in India and execution at age 23 made him a folk hero of the Indian independence movement.
It was on this day in 1907, Bhagat Singh was born in Banga village of Lyallpur district of undivided Punjab province.
He began to protest British rule in India while still, a youth and soon fought for national independence.
He also worked as a writer and editor in Amritsar for Punjabi- and Urdu-language newspapers espousing Marxist theories. He is credited with popularizing the catchphrase “Inquilab zindabad” (“Long live the revolution”).
In 1928 Bhagat Singh plotted with others to kill the police chief responsible for the death of Indian writer and politician Lala Lajpat Rai, one of the founders of National College, during a silent march opposing the Simon Commission.
Instead, in a case of mistaken identity, junior officer J.P. Saunders was killed, and Bhagat Singh had to flee Lahore to escape the death penalty.
In 1929 he and an associate lobbed a bomb at the Central Legislative Assembly in Delhi to protest the implementation of the Defence of India Act and then surrendered.
Bhagat Singh was hanged in the Lahore jail along with Shivaram Hari Rajguru and Sukhdev Thapar on March 23, 1931.
Glimpses of Bhagat Singh from history:
1923, the great Bhagat Singh as a student in National College Lahore (can be seen standing fourth from right).
Shirt of Bhagat Singh khaki shirt with Italian collar marked Bhagat Singh.
In 1929, Bombshell was recovered by CID from Lahore, became part of an exhibit in assembly bomb case against Bhagat Singh.
FIR against the great Bhagat Singh in assembly bomb case at a police station in New Delhi.
Even in prison his revolutionary thought never stopped. The Mianwali jail (in Pakistan) Bhagat Singh started a hunger strike in protest against discrimination between Prisoners.
October 7, 1930, death warrant of the great Bhagat Singh.
Bhagat Singh continues to inspire through his deeds, words, intellect and ideas. The nation is ever grateful to this iconic leader who made the ultimate sacrifice for the country’s freedom.
Inspirational quotes on his 113th birthday
“But man’s duty is to try and endeavour, success depends upon chance and environments.”
― Bhagat Singh
“Every tiny molecule of Ash is in motion with my heat I am such a Lunatic that I am free even in Jail.”
― Bhagat Singh
“Merciless criticism and independent thinking are the two necessary traits of revolutionary thinking.”
― Bhagat Singh
“Love always elevates the character of man. It never lowers him, provided love be love.”
― Bhagat Singh
“the sword of revolution is sharpened on the whetting stone of ideas-bhagat singh in court during his trial, india’s struggle for freedom”
― Bhagat Singh
“I am a man and all that affects mankind concerns me.”
― Bhagat Singh
“Philosophy is the outcome of human weakness or limitation of knowledge”.”
― Bhagat Singh
