Bhagat Singh’s kin expresses outrage over behind-bars portrait of Kejriwal
Expressing his outrage, Sandhu said an attempt has been made to compare Kejriwal with the legends.
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.
Narendra Modi paid tributes to freedom fighters on Martyrs' Day (Shaheed Diwas) and said that they made an unparalleled contribution.
BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra lashed out at the Aam Aadmi Party over the rally carried out by AAP before party leader and Delhi Deputy CM Manish Sisodia was summoned by the CBI.
After Delhi's Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said that he has been summoned by the CBI on Monday, CM Arvind Kejriwal compared him with freedom fighter Bhagat Singh and termed this as the "second fight for freedom"
If Bhagat Singh had this strong feeling, it was based on the reality of a mass awakening of people inspired by the sacrifices of jailed revolutionaries who were on an indefinite fast. They were tortured just to accept food but they refused. They were beaten repeatedly and deprived of water.
"My humble homage to the great freedom fighter Bhagat Singh on his birth anniversary," Prime Minister Modi tweeted.
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,"
