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Today we are celebrating the 115th birth anniversary of the great revolutionary Chandrashekhar Azad. Azad shot himself on the oath of not coming under the British's grip on 23 July. As long as Azad lived free, no one could imprison him. When Azad was arrested by the British government during the non-cooperation movement and he was asked his identity in the court, he said - my name is Azad and father's name is Freedom and my address is Jail.
Ramprasad Bismil and Chandrashekhar Azad along with fellow revolutionaries carried out the historic Kakori train robbery to loot the British treasury and buy weapons. This incident shook the British government. The talk is of 9 August 1925. It was evening. It was starting to get dark a little bit. Saharanpur Passenger Express was moving towards Lucknow. Before Lucknow, 10 revolutionaries boarded the Kakori station and robbed the train.
Revenge for the death of Lala Lajpat Rai...
Azad, Rajguru and Bhagat Singh had planned to avenge the death of Lala Lajpat Rai. On 17 December 1928, Azad, Bhagat Singh and Rajguru surrounded the office of the Superintendent of Police in Lahore in the evening, and as JP Saunders came out on a motorcycle with his bodyguard, Rajguru fired the first shot. Then Bhagat Singh went ahead and fired 4-6 bullets. When Saunders' bodyguard chased him, Chandrashekhar Azad killed him with his bullet. After this, posters were put up everywhere in Lahore that the death of Lala Lajpat Rai had been avenged.
After this one day he was called to Alfred Park in Allahabad by his friend Sukhdev Raj. While he was talking, the police surrounded him and started firing bullets. There was firing from both sides. Chandrashekhar Azad had taken an oath in his life that he would never come alive in the hands of the police. So he shot himself. After independence, the park in which he died was renamed as Chandrashekhar Azad Park in Allahabad and the village in which he lived in Madhya Pradesh was renamed as Azadpura.
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