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Bhagat Singh Biography 

Bhagat Singh was born on 20th September 1907 in the village of Banga in Punjab, previously that place was called British India and is now Pakistan. Bhagat Singh was the second of seven children born to Vidyavati and her husband Kishan Singh Sandhu. The second of four sons and three daughters. Bhagat Singh and his uncle Ajit Singh were active in progressive politics. 

In 1907 Bhagat Singh participated in the Naharupar Investment Bill and later in the Ghadar movement from 1914 to 1915. After being sent to the village school in Banga for a few years, Bhagat Singh was admitted to the Dayanand Anglo-Vedic School in Lahore.

In 1923 Bhagat Singh joined the National College in Lahore, established by Lala Lajpat Rai 2 years earlier in response to Mahatma Gandhi's non-cooperation movement, which urged the Indian territories to leave the Shun School and College subsidized by the British Indian government. and in 1927. 

Similarly, In October 1926 Bhagat Singh was arrested on the pretext that, he was involved in a bombardment in Lahore. Bhagat Singh was released on a bond of Rs.60,000. For five weeks after his arrest.

Bhagat Singh wrote and edited Urdu and Punjabi newspapers published in Amritsar and also contributed to the low-cost pamphlets published by the Naujawan Bharat Sabha, which excited the British. Bhagat Singh also wrote for Kirti, the magazine of Kirti Kisan Party, and also for Veer Arjun newspaper published in Delhi as Balwant, Ranjit, and Pratiksha.

In 1928, the British government set up a saimon commission to report on the political situation in India. Some Indian political parties boycotted the commission because it had no Indians in its membership and protests took place across the country. When the Commission visited Lahore on October 1928, Lala Lajpat Rai led the 1st March protest against it. Police efforts to disperse the huge crowd resulted in part. Unfortunately, Lala Lajpat Rai died of a heart attack on 7th November 1928. Doctors thought that he might have died from the injuries inflicted early. 

Bhagat Singh was a prominent member of the Hindustan Republican Association and was likely responsible in large part for its renaming in 1928 as the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association.  Hindustan Socialist Republican Association vowed to avenge Rai's death. Bhagat Singh, along with revolutionaries like Shivram Rajguru, Sukhdev Thapar, and Chandrashekhar Azad conspired to kill James A. Scott. However, in a case of mistaken identity, the conspirators shot an Assistant Superintendent of Police, John P. Saunders, when he was leaving the district police headquarters on 7th December 1928. 

After killing Saunders, the group fled through the entrance of DAV college. The entrance of the college and The district police headquarters were across the street. A head constable Chanan Singh who was following them was shot dead by Chandrashekhar Azad. Bhagat Singh and Rajguru left the house early the next day with loaded revolvers. Having shaved their beards and wearing a cap over their cropped hair, Singh and Durgawati Devi passed as a young couple carrying Devi's sleeping child, while Rajguru carried their belongings as a servant. At the station, Singh managed to hide his identity while buying tickets and all three boarded a train to Kanpur. There they boarded a train for Lucknow. Because CID at Howrah railway station usually checks passengers on a direct train from Lahore.

In Lucknow, Rajguru left separately for Banaras, while Bhagat Singh Devi and Shishu went to Howrah. All except Singh returned to Lahore after a few days. Met Jawaharlal Nehru, Bhagat Singh, and other strikers at Central Jail Main Wali. After the meeting, he said, "I was very sad to see the generation of heroes. He laid down his life in this struggle. They want that political prisoners should be treated like political prisoners. I have full hope that he will be crowned with the success of sacrifice". 

Mohammad Ali Jinnah speaking in support of the strikers in the assembly said, "A man who goes on a hunger strike has a soul." He is inspired by that spirit and he rests in the justice of his cause. No matter how much you insult them and however much you say they are misguided. 

Bhagat Singh, Rajguru, and Sukhdev were sentenced to death in the Lahore Conspiracy Case and ordered to be hanged on 24 March 1931. The schedule was advanced by 11 hours and all three were hanged at Lahore Jail on 23 March 1931 at 7:30 am. It is reported that no magistrate was prepared to supervise Singh's execution at that time, as required by law.

Instead, the incarceration was supervised by a mother justice, who also signed three death warrants because their original warrants had expired. Prison officials then broke a hole in the back wall of the prison. The bodies were removed and secretly cremated by the three men in the bowels of darkness outside Ganda Singh Wala village and then dumped in the river driven about 10 kilometers away at night.

Bhagat Singh was criticized by his contemporaries and people after his death for his violent and revolutionary stance towards the British as well as his strong opposition to the pacifist form taken up by Gandhi and the Indian National Congress. The manner in which he used to convey his message. Like shooting Saunders and throwing the ball. In sharp contrast to Gandhi's non-violent postulates. Gandhi condemned Bhagat, still, he gave him a mother, a great patriot, and martyr Subhash Chandra Bose said that Bhagat Singh had become a symbol of a new awakening among the youth.

Nehru acknowledged that Bhagat Singh's popularity was leading to a new national awakening. Bhagat Singh was a clean fighter, he said, who faced his enemy in the open.

Till the end of the country, Bhagat Singh was dispelling the darkness prevailing everywhere. Four years after Singh's execution, Sir and Williamson, director of the Intelligence Bureau, wrote that his picture was sold in every town and township and for a time rivaled in popularity even that of Mr. Gandhi himself.

Then President Pratibha Patil fame sculptor Ram V Sutar, who designed the statue of Bhagat Singh, was unveiled at India's Sandesh Bhavan in New Delhi on 15 August 2008.