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Men Die, Spirit never dies

Carry Forward the Behest of Bhagat Singh

Call of 23rd

march the Martyrs day of Bhagat singh

In the cross current of Indian Freedom movememtn, even amongst the greatest of

the revolutionary heroes who ridiculed death on the gallows, stood apart,

towering above the horizon in distinction, Shaheed-E-Azam Bhagat Singh. His

boundless courage and devotion to the cause, his precocity of understanding of

the revolutionary processes in the background of the history and then ongoing

political movement, his audacious attempt to reorient the whole of the freedom

movemement towards a qualitatively new goal, his unique exemplary struggle inthe minor and major problems of personal life; everything made him a

revolutionary of outstanding brilliance.

A leading Marxist thinker of this era, Comrade Shibdas Ghosh, analysing the

onward march of Indian freedom struggle , pointed out to us that the freedom

movement, from the very beginning, was divided into two distinctly different

trends Viz., the compromising and uncompromising trend. Bhagat Singh,

according to him, showed the most remarkable conceptional advancement in the

process of evolution of that trend during his time. He emphasised, time and again

on the study and cultivation of this uncompromising trend in general and of

Bhagat Singh in particular, to understand the great qualities of his character and

apply them in our life. On the occasion of the 23rd

march, the day of martyrdom of

Bhagat Singh, we recall certain aspects and incidents of his life which are most

illuming for the present generations of students when almost the whole

politics(the power politics) has degenerated really to the level of profession of

scoundrels.

The Early Influences

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Born to a family of revolutionaries, Bhagat Singh, right from his childhood

became closely associated with freedom movememnt. Of his two uncles, Ajith

Singh was sentenced to lifelong deportation and swarn singh died of inhuman

torture in police custody. The martyrdom of the hero of Ghadr uprising, Kartar

Singh; the story of brutal jalianwallabagh massacre, the impact of his patriotic

father, Kishen Singh, kindled the fire of struggle and self-sacrifice in his early

boyhood. It was a time when the Indian revolutionary politics had been

undergoing a critical period. M any heroes had already laid down their lives in the

course of uncompromising freedom struggle. Attempts of insurrection had been

foiled and ruthlessly crushed down by the British Henchmen. The question was

already haunting many people, whether, inspite of all the sacrifice, dedication,

devotion and courage of the indomitable revolutionaries, the conspiratorial form

of struggle could ever defeat the so powerful British Empire. Mean while two very

important evnts occurred. First , is the Soviet Revolution in 1917 , Which shook

the whole world literally. It strognly boosted the revolutionary activities all over

the world and particualrly in the colonies and semi-colonies. As an impact of

those new ideas and concepts, the concepts of Marxism-Leninism and the dream

to put an end to all sorts of exploitation of man by man, started to claim the

attention of many individuals and the various revolutionary polity of our country.

The second important event was the rise of Gandhiji in Indian National Congressand the beginning of the age ofAhimsa (non-violence) and satyagraha as the

dominant trend in freedom movememnt. In this backdrop, Bhagat Singh entered

the arena.

A Revolutionary In Making

In his student life he was drawn to the vortex of freedom struggle. He,

along with some of his compatriots formed the Naujawan Bharat Sabha in punjab

and started to organise the students and youth of punjab to fight the British in arevolutionary way, distincly different from tha path of non-violence, negotiations

and compromise. Mean while, Anushila Samity, a major militant group in Bengal

took the initiative to organise revolutionary activities all over India, thus formed

the Hindustan Republican Association(HRA) in 1923 to bring the splinter groups

scattered all over the country under the aegis of a single organisation. Bhagat

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Singh came in contact with the HRA by the middle of twenties, with his close

comrade-in-arms and devoted themselves to escalate its activities through out

punjab and other provinces in northern India. It is noteworthy that the great

patriotic hero of the Chgittagong uprising, Masterda Surya Sen and his group

were close associates of this HRA. During this period Bhagat Singh was getting

more and more involved in organising and recruiting revolutionary workers,

while, at the same time was devoting himself extensively to the studies of political

literatures, especially those of Marx and Lenin. Bhagat Singh and his fellow

comrades would resd the books, made notes, held discussions and debates and

thus gradually reshaped their old ideas in the light of these new conceptions. This

intense ideological struggle led him to the conclusion that mere removal of

Britshers from the country would in no way solve the basic problems of peoples

life but the chief objective of the forthcoming revolution would be to

permanently put an end to all sorts of social discriminations and exploitations and

to establish the hegemony of the working class.