Bhagat
Singh was born on 28 September 1907 in Lyallpur district of the Punjab. He is
also known as “Shaheed Bhagat Singh” because of his influential revolution in
India’s Independence Movements. He is from a Sikh family whose members were
actively involved in India’s Independence movements and also some of them served
Maharaja Ranjit Singh’s army.
Childhood
In
1919, at the age of 12, Bhagat Singh visited the site of the Jallianwala Bagh
massacre, where just hours before thousands of unarmed people gathered at a
public meeting were killed. At the age of 14, he was among the protestors of
the killing of a large number of unarmed people at Gurudwara Nankana Sahib on
20th February 1921. Bhagat Singh never supported Gandhi's philosophy of
non-violence.
Education
Unlike other Sikh kids in the
village who were attending Khalsa High School in Lahore, his parents didn’t
allow him to join a school whose officials are loyal to British. Instead, he
joined Dayanand Anglo-Vedic High school (now a day’s popularly known as DAV
Public School), an Arya Samaji institute. In 1923, Bhagat Singh attended the
National College in Lahore, along with studies he was also active in
extra-curricular activities such as the dramatics society.
Career
Merely
at the age of 12, Bhagat Singh joined Young Revolutionary Movement. He devoted
his whole life for noble cause that is freedom of our country. Once his family
tried him to get married but he ran away from his house to escape from it.
In
1926, he founded the Indian nationalist youth organization ‘Naujawan Bharat
Sabha’. He was also an important part of Hindustan Republican Association (also
known as Hindustan Socialist Republican Association). Due to his active
participation and influence on youth, British Police force got worried about
it, and they arrested him on the charge of being involved in bombing that took
place in Lahore previous year. He wrote many inspirational speeches in Urdu and
Punjabi newspaper published from Amritsar. His writings were bringing agitation
in youth and made them to be involved in freedom fighting.
At
the End
To
take the revenge of death of Lala Lajpat Rai he was involved in murder of
British Police Official John Saunders and after that was able to successfully
escape from there.
