Bhagat Singh ( 23 March 1931) was an Indian socialist revolutionary whose two acts of dramatic violence against the British in India and execution at age 23 made him a folk hero of the Indian independence movement.
In December 1928, Bhagat Singh and an associate, Shivaram Rajguru, fatally shot a 21-year-old British police officer, John Saunders, in Lahore, British India, mistaking Saunders, who was still on probation, for the British police superintendent, James Scott, whom they had intended to assassinate.
Bhagat Singh, (born September 27, 1907, Lyallpur, western Punjab, India [now in Pakistan]—died March 23, 1931, Lahore [now in Pakistan]), revolutionary hero of the Indian independence movement.
At the age of 23 he founded the Indian socialist youth organisation, “Naujawan Bharat Sabha” in march 1926. He also joined the Hindustan Republican Association.
He was very from his early childhood , he became a member of HRA in 1924 devastated by Non- Cooperation Movement. In 1927 he was first arrested in kakori case.
There was also vacuum period after Non Cooperation and then the revolutionary grew. The ideology was totally against the congress however Nehru and Gandhi did not criticize him.
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