Marty’s Day: Take a sneak peak of Bhagat Singh’s roots in Pakistan
| Friday | 23rd March, 2018Summary:
Bhagat Singh was a revolution in himself. With the slogan of ‘Inkalab zindabad’, he ignited the much-needed fire in the hearts of the youth to bring freedom to the motherland. Atrocities, challenges and even death couldn’t derail him from his goal. For he was a man of substance, who fought the invaders and stood in front of death, greeting it like an old friend.
On 23rd March, Singh was executed with his friends Sukhdev Thapar and Shivaram Rajguru at a mere of age 23. The Shaheed Diwas, is a reminder of the two major incidents that revolutionaries glorify in a soaring order. Shooting British police officer John Saunders in Lahore and discharging two bombs in the Central Legislative Assembly in Delhi, were the two were defining moments in the life of Singh and Indian freedom struggle.
A great part of Bhagat Singh’s life was spent in Lahore Pakistan, this Martyrdom Day let’s take a glance at the roots of Bhagat Singh in Pakistan.
National College, Now Bradlaugh Hall
Singh came to Lahore to study in the National College set up in the famous Bradlaugh Hall on Rattigan Road behind the Central Model School. The building is red, shaped like a hut and has striking arched windows symbolic of the British architecture.
Lala Lajpat Rai institutionalized the National College in Lahore to educate those opposing and boycotting the British colonialists as part of the non-cooperation movement at Bradlaugh Hall.
The National College fostered the young Bhagat and facilitated him garner his skills as a speaker and writer.
Lahore’s Central Jail
Bhagat Singh was hanged in Lahore’s Central Jail on the 23 March, 1931 – it is marked as one of the most historic events in the Indian history of independence. Singh had garnered such a huge popularity that no magistrate was willing to take up this hanging.
Hussainwala Village Near Lahore
Shaheed Bhagat Singh was cremated in the village Hussainwala which is Kasur district and his Samadhi is still visible from there across the Ganda Singh Border. It was given back to India in exchange for the 12 villages next to the Sulemanki Headworks.
On this Martyrdom Day, NYOOOZ salutes the patriotic spirit of Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev Thapar and Shivaram Rajguru.