Remebering Shaheed Bhagat Singh

Remembering Shaheed Bhagat SinghOn 23rd March 2010...

Watan pe jo fida hoga...

Amar vo noujawaan hoga..

Rahegi jab talaq duniya...

Ye afsana byaan hoga..

It's on this day in the year 1931, the young trio of Shaheed Bhagat Singh,Shivram Rajguru and Sukhdev Thapar were hanged to death by the British Government in Lahore.Their Martyrdom proved to be one of the important turning pointin the Indian Freedom Struggle and the entire Youth generation started looking upto the active participation in the fight for Independence. Bhagat Singh, the most charismatic and with a Lion's heart was involvedin the Revolutionary activities from a very early age and was associated with Ghadar party in Punjab and afterward formed Hindustan Nau Jawan Sabha and later to become an active member of Hindustan Socialist Republic Association.

When Lala Lajpat Rai opposed the Simon Commission, he was badly beatenby the British and Bhagat Singh and team avenged his death by killing(though mistaken identity), J P Saunders, D.S.P in place ofthe Police Suptd Scott.The famous incidence of throwing a Bomb in the Assembly, to make theirvoice heard in the corridors of British power, the famous trial, the singing of Mera Rang de Basantee Chola and coining the term ˜Inquilaab Zindabaad even today fills one with such pride and courageNo wonder these men are still looked upon as Youth Iconsand ˜Great Revolutionaries. .Let's therefore remember them patriotically on this day of 23rd March todayand try and adapt some of the principles for which they stood The teachings, slogans, thoughts which these great martyrs have givento the people of India are still remembered and are relevant even today as they were earlier.

Bhagat Singh profile: Date of birth: September 27, 1907Place of birth: Lyallpur, Punjab, British IndiaDate of death: March 23, 1931Movement: Indian Independence movementMajor organizations: Naujawan Bharat Sabha, Kirti Kissan Party and Hindustan Socialist Republican AssociationReligion: Sikhism (early life), Atheist (later life) Influences Anarchism, Communism, Socialism.