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Bhagat
Singh
was
an
Indian
revolutionary
freedom
fighter
who
rose
against
the
British
colonial
rule
in
India
Born
into
a
family
of
patriotic
Sikhs,
the
trigger
point
for
his
revolution
was
the
bloodbath
of
the
Jallianwala
Bagh
massacre,
which
he
witnessed
at
a
tender
age
of
12,
in
1919.
He
collected
the
blood
soaked
soil
in
a
bottle.
He
had
great
respect
for
Lala
Lajpat
Rai
who
had
established
the
National
College
in
Lahore
to
educate
those
opposing
the
British
colonialists.
Singh
moved
to
Lahore
to
study
in
the
National
College
When
Lala
Lajpat
Rai
held
a
protest
march
against
the
Simon
Commission
in
1928
at
Lahore,
he
was
badly
lathi
charged
by
the
British
police
officer,
James
Scott
&
he
died
a
few
days
later.
Singh
decided
to
avenge
his
death.
However,
in
a
case
of
mistaken
identity,
John
Saunders,
another
police
officer
was
shot.
Evading
arrest,
he
went
on
to
throw
bombs
&
leaflets
inside
the
Central
Legislative
Assembly
&
then
offered
himself
for
arrest.
These
two
charges
were
clubbed
together
by
the
British
as
the
Lahore
conspiracy
case
&
he
was
sentenced
to
death
along
with
his
comrades
Rajguru
&
Sukhdev.
He
was
hanged
in
Lahore’s
Central
Jail
in
1931
at
the
age
of
23.
Bhagat
Singh,
Rajguru
&
Sukhdev
were
secretly
cremated
at
Hussainwala
village
across
the
Ganda
Singh
Border.
Bhagat
Singh
Memorial
was
built
In
1950
The
memorial
was
destroyed
in
the
1971
Indo-Pak
war
&
was
rebuilt later.
He
was
referred
to
as Shaheed
Bhagat
Singh
(shaheed means
martyr)
as
he
had
sacrificed
his
life
for
the
country's
freedom.
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