Bhagat Singh
Bhagat Singh
Bhagat Singh was an Indian freedom fighter. Bhagat Singh Birthday is celebrated on 27th September .
Bhagat Singh was born to Kishan Singh and Vidya Vati at Banga in the Lyallpur district of the West Punjab in 1907 (exact date of
birth is not known).Bhagat Singh was the second of the five children (four sons and a daughter ) of Kishan Singh, the others bing
Jagat Singh ( died young ), Amar Kaur, Kulbir Singh, Kultar Singh and Rajinder Singh.
On completion of his primary education at the village school in Banga, Bhagat Singh was sent to the D.A.V. High school, and then to the D.A.V. College at Lahore.
The execution of the Ghadarite Kartar Singh Saraba in 1915, the Rowlatt Act and the Jallianwala Bagh tragedy of 1919 made Lahore a storm-centre of agitation. Bhagat Singh responded to the non-cooperation call of Gandhi, left the D.A.V. College and later joined the National College founded by Lala Lajpat Rai, from where he graduated in 1923.
Bhagat Singh was the first Indian revolutionary to start the slogan of Inquilab Zindabad, which later became the war cry of Indian Independence struggle.
Bhagat Singh edited the Urdu paper Kirti from Amristar. He also edited the Akali at Amristar. He was a good journalist and for some time contributed to the Arjun (Delhi) and Pratap (Kanpur) under the pseudonym of ‘Balwant Singh’.
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