Today, 28th September marks
the 108th Birth Anniversary of the power-pack inspiration Shaheed
Bhagat Singh. The legendary revolutionary was born in Lyallpur district of the
Punjab (now in Pakistan). He along with fellow freedom fighters went on to
blast two non-lethal bombs in the Parliament in 1929 to make the deaf
Englishmen hear the demands of Indian Independence and shook England from its
dreams.
Bhagat
Singh’s violent acts and sufferings in Jail have become the main causes of
inspiration. He was a macho gun-toting
freedom fighter who believed that violence in the most effective way to achieve
independence from British Rule. His true contribution lay in trying to
formulate a revolutionary philosophy and an effective course of action, taking
into account the struggle of colonial subjection. He was the prime character of
internal exploitation.
Bhagat
Singh and his associates made a major leap in widening the definition and scope
of REVOLUTION. It was no longer termed with violence and mere militancy but
beyond social order. It is tagged as end
exploitation of man by man.
Bhagat
Singh was one of the first socialist thinkers of the nation. He viewed that nation’s
independence depends on the effective implementation of methodology and to cut
down the issues of class struggle. In the short span of his life, Bhagat Singh
transformed himself from an action-oriented young teenage revolutionary to a
democratic and rational thinker towards society.
On
revolution, Bhagat Singh has written, “Revolution
did not necessarily involve sanguinary strife. It was not a cult of bomb and
pistol. They may sometimes be mere means for its achievement. No doubt they
play a prominent part in some movements, but they do not –for that very reason
–become one and the same thing. A rebellion is not a revolution. It may
ultimately lead to that end.”
The
young gun along with two other brave heart revolutionaries Shivaram Rajguru and
Sukhdev Thapar was hanged till death at the very tender age of 23.
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