New Delhi: One of Indian’ freedom movement’s famous revolutionaries, Bhagat Singh wanted to meet a soldier's death and had requested the British authorities that he and his associates, Sukhdev and Rajguru, either be blown by a cannon or be shot dead instead of being hanged like criminals.
Bhagat Singh had written to the Punjab Governor just before his execution that he and his associates had fought like soldiers to free their motherland from the British Colonial rule, they should be granted the honour of dying like soldiers.
However, the Punjab governor paid no heed to the request. Britishers not only hanged him before dawn, ahead of the scheduled time on March 23, but had also kept his body on the noose for about an hour.
''They were scared that the indomitable spirit of the martyr will spring back to life,'' Yadvendra Singh son of Bhagat Singh's nephew late Babbar Singh was quoted by UNI.
The Superintendent and surgeon of Lahore jail—where the martyrs were executed in a hurried and hush-hush manner, quote similar facts in several literatures.
Prof K C Yadav and Yadvendra Singh involved with compiling a ten-volume series on the martyr told UNI that at least 22 people had on different occasions, described the last days spent by Bhagat Singh in Lahore Jail.
Evidences reveal that Bhagat had stressed at that time that he wanted to embrace death so that the “sleeping conscience of his countrymen” be stirred, said Yadvendra Singh.
Dwarka Das, librarian Chhabil Das, Veer Pratap founder Virendra and Durga Bhabhi, who had been closely associated with Bhagat Singh's revolutionary activities have talked about his last days in jail.
The Bhagat Singh Foundation decided to take out ten volumes on the great martyr's life. While five are already available in the market, the rest would come out by March next year.
The fifth and latest volume in the series is titled Bhagat Singh: The Making of a Revolutionary, Prof K C Yadav reveals.
With inputs from UNI
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