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Key points
- It was on this day in 1907 that Bhagat Singh was born in the village of Banga in the Lyallpur district of the undivided province of Punjab.
- “He will always remain a source of inspiration for us,” Amit Shah said on Twitter.
- On Sunday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi also paid tribute to the revolutionary in his 69th episode of ‘Mann ki Baat’.
New Delhi: Interior Minister Amit Shah paid tribute to Shaheed Bhagat Singh on Sunday at his 113th birth anniversary. He expressed his gratitude to the revolutionary freedom fighter for giving a new direction to India’s freedom struggle and for making huge sacrifices to awaken determination for independence among the youth of the country. “He will always remain a source of inspiration for us,” Amit Shah said on Twitter.
It was on this day in 1907 that Bhagat Singh was born in the village of Banga in the Lyallpur district of the undivided province of Punjab. He was a charismatic Indian socialist revolutionary whose two acts of dramatic violence against the British in India and his execution at the age of 23 made him a popular hero of the Indian independence movement. Bhagat Singh was hanged in Lahore jail along with Shivaram Hari Rajguru and Sukhdev Thapar on March 23, 1931.
Meanwhile, as the nation honors Bhagat Singh, Punjab’s Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh will hold a protest sit-in against the Farm Acts on Monday in Khatkar Kalan, the ancestral village of Bhagat Singh. Former Uttarakhand Chief Minister and Congress Secretary General Harish Rawat will also visit Punjab for the first time since he took over state affairs.
Late Sunday night, President Ram Nath Kovind gave his consent to three contentious agrarian bills that were recently passed in Parliament amid strong protests by farmers and opposition parties.
Calling the president’s assent to the farm bills “unfortunate and distressing,” Amarinder Singh said his government is exploring all options, including possible amendments to state laws, to protect the interests of farmers.
The Punjab government was already in consultation with legal and agricultural experts, and all those affected by the central government’s “dire” laws, to decide on the future course of action, he said, the IANS news agency reported.
