SWAPNIL SANSAR, ENGLISH WEEKLY,LUCKNOW, 21,MARCH, (07) Sukhdev Thapar, Freeom Fighter Sukhdev Thapar was an revolutionary. He was a senior member of Hindustan in New Delhi (8th April 1929), Sukhdev and his accomplices have been arrest - Socialist Republican Association. He was hanged on 23 March1931 at the age ed and convicted of their crime, going through the loss of life sentence as the of 23.Sukhdev Thapar, born (15 May 1907) in Ludhiana, Punjab, British India to verdict. On twenty-third March 1931, the 3 courageous revolutionaries, Bhagat Ramlal Thapar and Ralli Devi. Sukhdev's father died and he was brought up by Singh, Sukhdev Thapar and Shivaram Rajguru have been hanged, at the same his uncle Lala Achintram.Sukhdev Thapar was a member of the Hindustan time as their bodies were secretly cremated at the banks of the River Sutlej. Socialist Republican Association (HSRA), and organised revolutionary cells in Sukhdev Thapar turned into just 24 years vintage whilst he became a martyr for Punjab and other areas of North India.Sukhdev is best remembered for his his motherland, however, he will usually be remembered for his courage, patri - involvement in the Lahore Conspiracy Case of 18 December 1928 and its after - otism, and sacrifice of his existence for India's independence. Agency. math. He was an accomplice of Bhagat Singh, and Shivaram Rajguru, whose conspiracy led to the assassination of Deputy Superintendent of Police, J. P. Shivaram Hari Rajguru Saunders in 1928 in response to the vio - Shivaram Hari Rajguru was an revolutionary from Maharashtra, known mainly lent death of a veteran leader,On 23 March for his involvement in the assassination of a British Raj police officer.Rajguru 1931, the three men were hanged. Their was born (24 August 1908) at Khed, near Pune, in what was then British India. bodies were secretly cremated on the He was a member of the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association, who want - banks of the Satluj river. ed India to be freed from British rule by any means necessary. He believed that Sukhdev (1907-1931) was a ferocity against oppression was far more famous Indian revolutionary who 23rd. March 1931 effective against British rule than the non - played a crucial role in India's violent civil disobedience preferred by struggle for Independence. He is Mahatma Gandhi. amongst the most esteemeed Indian free - Rajguru dom fighters who sacrificed their lives for became a col - the liberty of their country. His complete league of name is Sukhdev Thapar and he was born Bhagat Singh on 15th May, 1907. His ancestral house is in Naughara Mohalla of Ludhiana and Sukhdev, town, Punjab, India. His father's call became Ram Lal. Since his youth, Sukhdev and took part had witnessed the brutal atrocities inflicted on India by the Imperial British Raj. in the assassi - This revolutionized him, and he vowed to set India free from the shackles of nation of a British dominion. Sukhdev Thapar was a member of the Hindustan Socialist British police Republican Association (HSRA) and organized innovative cells in Punjab and officer, J. P. different areas of North India. A devoted chief, he even went on to educate the Saunders, at young people at the National College in Lahore, especially about pre-colonial Lahore in India. With others, he began the 'Naujawan Bharat Sabha' at Lahore that 1928. Their become an agency involved in various activities, specifically gearing the actions were teenagers for the freedom conflict and ending communalism. Sukhdev himself to avenge the took lively element in numerous revolutionary activities just like the 'Prison death of Lala hunger strike' in 1929; however, he could always be remembered within the Lajpat Rai chronicles of the Indian Freedom Movement for his daring yet brave assaults in who had died the Lahore Conspiracy Case (18th December 1928), that shook the very a fortnight foundation of the British Government. Sukhdev was the associate of Bhagat after being hit Singh and Shivaram Rajguru, who had been concerned in the assassination of by police while on a march protesting the Simon Commission. The feeling was Deputy Superintendent of Police, J.P. Saunders in 1928, consequently aveng - that Rai's death resulted from the police action, although he had addressed a ing the death of a veteran leader, Lala Lajpat Rai, owing to immoderate police meeting later.The three men and 21 other co-conspirators were tried under the beating within the Conspiracy case. After the Central Assembly Hall bombings provisions of a regulation that was introduced in 1930 specifically for that pur - pose. All three were convicted of the charges and hanged on 23 March 1931. Contd.From Page No.01 They were cremated at Hussainiwala at the banks of the Sutlej river in the Ferozepur district of Punjab.His birthplace of Khed has since been renamed as Rajgurunagar in his honour. Rajguru Market, a shopping complex at Hisar, Bhagat Singh Haryana, was named in his honour in 1953. Agency. Lala Lajpat Rai, Bhagat Singh and his associates plotted the assassination of without the presence of the accused and was a one-sided trial that hardly James A. Scott, the Superintendent of Police, believed to have ordered the lathi adhered to the normal legal rights guidelines. charge. The revolutionaries, mistaking J.P. Saunders, an Assistant The tribunal delivered its 300-page judgement on 7 October 1930. It declared Superintendent of Police, as Scott, killed him instead. Bhagat Singh quickly left that irrefutable proof has been presented confirming the involvement of Singh, Lahore to escape his arrest. To avoid recognition, he shaved his beard and cut Sukhdev and Rajguru in the Saunders murder. Singh admitted to the murder his hair, a violation of the sacred tenets of Sikhism.In response to the and made statements against the British rule during the trial. They were formulation of Defence of India Act, the Hindustan Socialist Republican sentenced to be hanged till death.On March 23, 1931, 7:30 am, Bhagat Singh Association planned to explode a bomb inside the assembly premises, where was hanged in Lahore Jail with his comrades Rajguru and Sukhdev. It is said the ordinance was going to be passed. On April 8 1929, Bhagat Singh and that the trio proceeded quite cheerfully towards the gallows while chanting their Batukeshwar Dutt threw a bomb onto the corridors of the assembly, shouted favourite slogans like “Inquilab Zindabad” and “Down with British Imperialism”. 'Inquilab Zindabad!' and threw pamphlet outlining their missive into the air. The Singh and his peers were cremated at Hussainiwala on the banks of Sutlej bomb was not meant to kill or injure anyone and therefore it was thrown away River.From a very young age patriotism had taken its seed in Bhagat Singh’s from the crowded place, but still several council members were injured in the conscience. He grew up to appreciate nationalism and crave a British-free commotion. Following the blasts both Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt independent India. Extensive nreading of European literature propelled him courted arrest towards forming a socialist outlook strongly desiring a democratic future for his The dramatic demonstration of protest was met with widespread beloved country. Although born a Sikh, Bhagat Singh veered towards Atheism criticisms from the political arena. Singh responded “Force when aggressively after witnessing severa Hindu-Muslim riots and other religious outbreaks. Singh applied is 'violence' and is, therefore, morally unjustifiable, but when it is used believed that something as precious as Independence can only be achieved by in the furtherance of a legitimate cause, it has its moral justification.”Trial a thorough cleansing of the exploitative nature of imperialism. proceedings commenced in May where Singh sought to defend himself, while He opined that such change can only be brought forwardby means of an armed Batukeshwar Dutt was represented by Afsar Ali. The court ruled in favour of a revolution, in similar lines to the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia. He introduced life sentence citing malicious and unlawful intent of the explosions.Soon after the slogan “Inquilab Zindabad” which sort of transformed into the war cry of the the sentencing, the police raided the HSRA bomb factories in Lahore and Indian Independence movement.Bhagat Singh, his intense patriotism coupled arrested several prominent revol utionaries. Three individuals, Hans Raj Vohra, with cultivated idealism, made him an ideal icon for the youth of his generation. Jai Gopal and Phanindra Nath Ghosh turned approver for the Government Through his written and vocal admonition of the British Imperial Government, he which led to a total of 21 arrests including those of Sukhdev, Jatindra Nath Das became the voice of his generation. His vehement departure from the and Rajguru. Bhagat Singh was re-arrested for the Lahore Conspiracy case, Gandhian non-violent route to Swaraj has often been criticized by many, yet murder of Assistant Superintendent Saunders and bomb manufacturing.Trial through the fearless embracing of martyrdom he inspired hundreds of teens and started against 28 accused in a special session court presided over by Judge youths to join the freedom struggle wholeheartedly. His eminence in current Rai Sahib Pandit Sri Kishen, on July 10, 1929. Meanwhile, Singh and his fellow times is evident from the fact that Bhagat Singh was voted as the Greatest inmates declared an indefinite hunger strike in protest of the prejudiced Indian, ahead of Subhash Chandra Bose and Mahatma Gandhi, in a poll difference in treatment of the white versus native prisoners and demanded to be conducted by India Today in 2008. recognised as ‘political prisoners’. The inspiration that Bhagat Singh still ignites within the soul of Indians can be The hunger strike received tremendous attention from the press and gathered felt in the popularity of the films and theatrical adaptations on his life. Several major public support in favour of their demands. Death of Jatindra Nath Das, films like “Shaheed” (1965) and “The Legend of Bhagat Singh” (2002) were after 63 days long fast, led to the negative public opinions intensifying towards made on the life of 23-year old revolutionary. Popular songs like the “Mohe rang the authorities. Bhagat Singh finally broke his 116-day fast, on request of his de basanti chola” and “Sarfaroshiki Tamanna” associated with Bhagat Singh are father and Congress leadership, on October 5, 1929.Owing to the slow pace of still relevant in inspiring patriotic emotions in the Indians. Numerous books, the legal proceedings, a special tribunal consisting of Justice J. Coldstream, articles and papers have been written about his life, ideologies and Justice Agha Hyder and Justice G. C. Hilton was set up on the directives of the legacy. Agency . Viceroy, Lord Irwin on 1 May 1930. The tribunal was empowered to proceed