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Paying tribute to the martyrs and their valiant spirit on the 97th anniversary of the Kakori Train Incident, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said that due to the vigilance, alertness, devotion and sacrifice of such brave souls we are living in an independent country.
Feb 27, 2021, 08:54 AM IST
New Delhi: February 27, 2021, marks the 90th death anniversary of the Indian revolutionary Chandra Shekhar Azad.
Azad was killed on this day in 1931 in Alfred Park, Allahabad after an associate betrayed him. For quite some time, he held the well-armed police that circled him at bay, single-handedly with a small pistol and a few cartridges.
However, left with just one bullet, he shot himself in the head and lived up to his resolve that he would never be arrested and dragged to the gallows to be hanged.
Below are some facts on the freedom fighter who sacrificed his life for the nation:
Recalling secular-egalitarian ideology of Kakori martyrs amidst Hindutva onslaught By Shamsul Islam. Dated: 12/22/2020 12:10:33 AM
“Unfortunately, India’s current rulers, the mainstream academia and the media have consciously seceded from this great philosophical heritage of the Kakori martyrs. The Hindutva onslaught today is the outcome of our ignorance about the sacrifices of the Kakori martyrs and ideals for which they laid down their lives.”
On August 9, 1925 a group of Indian revolutionaries affiliated to the Hindustan Republican Association (HRA) which included Chandrashekhar Azad, Ashfaqullah Khan, Ram Prasad Bismil, RajenderLahiri, Roshan Singh, Manmath Nath Gupta and others waylaid the British Government treasury loaded on a passenger train at Kakori railway station (approximately 20 kilometers from Lucknow) and captured the same.