to all lovers of india. . . . . . . .

Lets remember Great shahid-e-azam BHAGAT SINGH on his birthday. . . . .
gained support when
he underwent a 41-day[13] fast in
jail, demanding equal rights for
Indian and British political
prisoners.[14] He was hanged for
shooting a police officer in
response to a police lathi charge
leading to the demise of veteran
freedom fighter Lala Lajpat Rai.
His legacy prompted youths in
India to begin fighting for Indian
independence and socialism in
India

He joined with
other revolutionaries, Shivaram
Rajguru, Sukhdev Thapar, Jai
Gopal and Chandrashekhar Azad,
in a plot to kill the
Superintendent of police, J. A.
Scott. Jai Gopal was supposed to
identify the chief and signal for
Singh to shoot. However, in a case
of mistaken identity, Gopal
signalled Singh on the appearance
of John P. Saunders, an Assistant
Superintendent of Police. J.P.
Saunders in his early twenties, still
a probationer, while leaving the
District Police Headquarters at
about 4:15 p.m. on December 17,
28 was mistaken as Scott and shot
by Rajguru and Bhagat Singh.
Head Constable Chanan Singh
was also killed when he came to
his help.
After killing Saunders, they
escaped through the D.A.V.
College entrance, on the other
side of the road. Head Constable
Chanan Singh who chased them
was fatally injured by
Chandrashekhar Azad's covering
fire. They then fled on bicycles to
the prearranged places of safety.
The police launched a massive
search operation to nab the
culprits and blocked all exits and
entrances. The police sealed all
roads from the city; the CID kept
a watch at the railway stations
and all young men leaving Lahore
were carefully scrutinized. They
kept themselves underground for
the next two days.
Sukhdev called at Mrs Durga Devi
Vohra after 10 p.m. on December
19, 1928. She agreed to help
them out. It was settled that they
would catch the train leaving
Lahore for Howrah en route
Bathinda the next morning at
6:10. That train was chosen
because they could leave in the
early hours before the arrival of
CID picket. Bhagat Singh in
Western dress carrying the
sleeping infant, Durga Bhabi in
her most impressive attire and
Rajguru shuffling under luggage,
left the house at about 5 a.m.
long before the CID arrived. On
reaching the station, Bhagat Singh
keeping his facial profile
reasonably covered on one side
with a slightly raised collar of the
overcoat and on the other by the
sleeping infant, purchased two
tickets, a joint second class
Christmas return ticket and a third
class one for the servant, for
Cawnpur. They walked side by
side into the railway station with
Rajguru carrying the luggage
behind in a servile manner. Both
men carried concealed loaded
revolvers with them for facing any
untoward incident, because police
parties in uniform as well as in
civil clothes were watching
carefully all departures from
Lahore. An impressively
respectable young couple carrying
a child, Western style dress and to
top it all, a joint second class
Christmas return ticket cast a spell
over the police and they boarded
the train without causing any
suspicion. To avoid recognition,
Bhagat Singh shaved his beard
and cut his hair, a violation of the
sacred tenets of Sikhism.
Breaking journey at Cawnpur they
went to Lucknow, as the CID at
Howrah kept a close watch on
passengers coming directly from
Lahore. At Lucknow Rajguru
parted company and left for
Varanasi. Bhagat Singh, Durga
Bhabhi and the infant went to
Howrah, and moved to Shushila
Didi’s place. Durga Devi went
back to Lahore a few days later.
Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and
Sukhdev were sentenced to death
in the Lahore conspiracy case and
ordered to be hanged on March
24, 1931. On 23 March 1931 at
7:30 pm, Bhagat Singh was
hanged in Lahore Jail with his
fellow comrades Rajguru and
Sukhdev. His supporters, who had
been protesting against the
hanging, immediately declared
him as a shaheed or martyr.[59]
According to the Superintendent
of Police at the time, V.N. Smith,
the hanging was advanced by a
day:
Normally execution took
place at 8 am, but it was
decided to act at once before
the public could become
aware of what had
happened...At about 7 pm
shouts of Inquilab Zindabad
were heard from inside the
jail. This was interpreted,
correctly, as a signal that the
final curtain was about to
drop.[60]
The Jail authorities broke the rear
wall of the Jail and secretly
cremated the three martyrs under
cover of darkness on the banks of
Sutlej, about 10 km from
Ferozepore.[61][62]
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