Bhagat Singh :
Birth - 28 September 1907,Banga village,Jaranwala Tehsil,Punjab.
He founded a youth organisation "Naujawan Bharat Sabha" in March 1926.
He also joined the "Hindustan Republican Association" which had prominent leaders like Ram Prasad Bismil, Chandrashekhar Azad and Ashfaqulla Khan.
The name of the organisation was changed to "Hindustan Socialist Republican Association" at Singh's insistence.
Became secretary of "Kirti Kisan Party" in September 1928.
Planned to kill "James A Scott" as revenge to Lala Lajpat rai's death,but killed "John Sanders" by a mistaken identity on 17 December 1928 with "Shivaram Rajguru", "Sukhdev Thapar" and "Chandrashekhar Azad".
On 8 April 1929,Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt threw 2 bombs inside the assembly & shouted slogans "Inquilab Zindabad".
Led the Indian prisoners in Mianwali Jail in a hunger strike to protest the illegal discrimination between Indian and English prisoners.
Special tribunal called Privy council{Justice J. Coldstream (president), Justice G. C. Hilton and Justice Agha Hyder (members)} was set up by Viceroy Lord Irwin to speed up the trail in "Lahore Conspiracy case".
Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev were sentenced to death in Lahore conspiracy and hanged on 23 March 1931 at 7:30 pm in Lahore jail.
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