Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday paid heartfelt tributes to freedom fighters, Bhagat Singh, Rajguru, and Sukhdev, on the occasion of their martyrdom day.
Delhi Assembly Speaker Vijender Gupta on Sunday paid homage to the great freedom fighters Bhagat Singh, Rajguru, and Sukhdev on the occasion of Martyrs' Day, honouring their supreme sacrifice for the nation.
As India commemorates Shaheed Diwas, Union Ministers paid heartfelt tributes to revolutionaries Bhagat Singh, Shivaram Rajguru, and Sukhdev Thapar, acknowledging their supreme sacrifice for the motherland.
Expressing his outrage, Sandhu said an attempt has been made to compare Kejriwal with the legends.
Whether Gandhi tried to persuade the then Viceroy Lord Irwin with full sincerity of purpose to commute the death sentence is a matter of debate till today, but what is not so debated is the fact that in our history textbooks the role of armed revolutionaries in the freedom struggle is not given due recognition.
Actor Amol Parashar, who is all set to essay the role of Shaheed Bhagat Singh in Shoojit Sircar's upcoming film, 'Sardar Udham Singh', has opened up on what was it like playing the revolutionary.
Subhas Chandra Bose was the lone crusader against the mainstream. His was a relentless anti-colonial struggle that aimed at socialist reconstruction after Independence. The socialism he envisaged was to be rooted in Indian soil. He never wanted to imitate Bolshevik experiments.
"I remained enthralled by the story of Bhagat Singh's fight for freedom. Yet it was a story that was not known at all within the mainstream historical accounts of India's path to freedom in the way that stories of Gandhi, Nehru, and Jinnah were,"
The BJP’s bid to appropriate and saffronise the secular universalist poet as a Hundutva icon has led to desecration of a Valluvar statue at Pillaiyarpatti in Thanjavur last week.
In his tweet, he also requested the PM to name Chandigarh Airport located in Mohali in memory of Bhagat Singh.
