Prof Jagmohan Singh, nephew of Shaheed Bhagat Singh, today said the statement made by Sangrur MP Simranjit Singh Mann that Bhagat Singh was a terrorist is continuation of the narrative which served the ruling class during the British rule.
Martyrs' Day or Shaheed Diwas is celebrated in India to remember freedom fighters who laid down their lives to help make India independent. While the death anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi on January 30 is the most prominent Martyrs' Day, there are six others as well.
‘What is Your Name?’ ‘Azad!’ Remembering Chandrashekhar Azad(1906–1931)
The revolutionary freedom fighter Chandrashekhar Azad is usually remembered only by the famous photograph in which he is twirling his moustache bare-chested, and wearing a janeu ritual thread, a symbol of masculine nationalism.
Deeper research into his life and political career reveals not only the truth behind this photograph but the progressive political ideas of Azad, who led the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association, a revolutionary socialist organisation founded by Bhagat Singh and others in September 1928.
Unlike Bhagat Singh, Chandra Shekhar Tiwari was born in a very poor family of workers (people who sell their labour power for wages). His father Sitaram Tiwari was a gardener, and his mother Jagrani Devi a homemaker. They had migrated from the district of Unnao in central UP to Jhabua, Madhya Pradesh where the boy who would become Azad was born on July 23, 1906.