Bhagat Singh Birthday, Real Name, Age, Weight, Height, Family, Facts, Death Cause, Contact Details, Girlfriend(s), Bio & More
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PERSONAL INFORMATION
REAL NAME
Bhagat Singh
BIRTHDAY
BORN ON DAY
Saturday
BIRTHPLACE
Banga, Pakistan
DIED AT AGE
23 Years 5 Months 25 Days
DEATHDATE
March 23, 1931
DEATHPLACE
Lahore, Pakistan
CAUSE OF DEATH
Capital punishment
NATIONALITY
PROFESSION
ZODIAC
LIBRA
Physical Stats
CHEST
N/A
BICEPS
N/A
WAIST
N/A
HEIGHT
N/A
WEIGHT
N/A
Bhagat Singh Family Members
Parents
FATHER
Sardar Kishan Singh Sandhu
BROTHER(S) NAME
SISTER(S) NAME
Fame & Address
DEBUT
Revolutionary activities against the British Raj
FAMOUS FROM/AS
Influential revolutionaries of the Indian Independence Movement.
Education, Net Worth & More
SCHOOLING FROM
Dayanand Anglo-Vedic High School
COLLEGE
More Information
About Bhagat Singh
A well-known name in the Indian fight for Independence. Every patriot knows the name of "Bhagat Singh" who sacrificed his life for Indian freedom. He died at the age of 23 but is still alive for his contribution to freedom. He is remembered for his revolutionary thoughts. He is immortal as he will remain alive in the heart of every Indian who love their country.
Career of Bhagat Singh
In 1926, he founded the Indian socialist youth organization "Naujawan Bharat Sabha" and also joined the Hindustan Republican Association which was headed by Chandrashekhar Azad, Bismil, Ram Prasad and Ashfaqullah Khan. Police arrested him for his influence on youth with a charge of bombing in Lahore. He decided to take a revenge of the death of Lala Lajpat Rai who was injured in a lathi charge while protesting against Simon Commission. They planned to kill Scott but killed Saunder by mistake. On 8 April 1929, he along with Batukeshwar Dutt threw two bombs into the Assembly chamber but instead of running from there, they stayed shouting the slogan "Inquilab Zindabad!" He was sentenced to death on 23 March 1931.
Some Lesser Known Facts About Bhagat Singh
- Did Bhagat Singh takes alcohol? NA.
- Was Bhagat Singh in the habit of Smoking? NA.
- He was born with revolutionary blood. He was a small kid when he had a desire to grow guns in the fields using which the British can be fought against.
- He was just twelve years old at the time of Jalianwalah Bagh massacre. He bunked from the school and went there and collected a bottle of mud that was wet with Indian blood. According to the reports he used to worship that bottle everyday.
- He had also taken parts in plays such as 'Samrat Chandragupta' and 'Rana Pratap' in his college.
- He bombed at the Central Assembly but his intention was not to harm anyone that's why he used low-grade explosives. It was confirmed by a later British investigation.
- The slogan 'Inquilab Zindabad' was given by him.
- He refused to marry and said that if I marry in slave India, my bride shall only be death. He left the home for Kanpur after that.
- He was in favor of socialism from an early age. He used to read about the socialist revolutions that were led by Lenin. In fact, he was reading a book on the life of Vladimir Lenin before his death.
- Not only he was a revolutionary but also a writer and had written many articles in the newspapers at the time. He also wrote four books in Jail but this is our bad luck not any of them is survived.
- He kept a diary with him which contains his thought about the freedom movement and revolution. He had written this diary while he was in Lahore Jail.
- He was greatly inspired by the idea of socialism of Lenin, Karl Marx, and Leon Trotsky. He even left his Sikh religion and declined the existence of God after reading about their socialistic ideas.
- He and Sukhdev decided to take revenge for the death of Lala Lajpat Rai and planned to kill the Superintendent of Police James Scott in Lahore. But by mistake shot John Saunders, the Assistant Superintendent of Police.
- Although he was born in a Sikh family but did not hesitate to shave his beard and cut his hair to escape from Lahore to Calcutta. He always gave first priority to the nation.
- He was hanged an hour before the scheduled time and was secretly cremated on the banks of the river Sutlej by jail authorities. As the jail authorities were afraid of thousands of people who were assembled outside the jail to take his sacred body.
- There are many films in Bollywood which are based on his life such as the Legend of Bhagat Singh, Shaheed, Shaheed-E-Azam.
- When he was in Mianwali Jail he noticed that there was a discrimination between European and Indian prisoners. He along with other Indian prisoners demanded clean clothing, toiletries, equality in food standards, and other hygienic necessities, as well as access to books and a daily newspaper. They decided to go on a hunger strike which increased his public support. The government tried to break their strike by applying various methods like placing different food items in the prison cells, Water pitchers were filled with milk, so that either they should break the strike or remain without water. He lost 14 pounds(6.4 kg) from his original weight of 133 pounds (60 kg). Jatindra Nath Das who was also on the hunger striker with him died after a 63-day hunger strike. Nehru moved an adjournment motion in the Central Assembly as a censure against the "inhumane treatment" of the Lahore prisoners. Singh ended the strike on a request by his father and taking into consideration a resolution of the Congress party after 116 days.
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