17th November Freedom Fighter Lala Lajpat Rai's death anniversary
November 17 is the death anniversary of Lala Lajpat Rai, the brave freedom fighter of India, Lala Lajpat Rai Death Anniversary. Lala Lajpat Rai was born on 28 January 1865 in the Dhudiki village of Ferozepur district of Punjab. After completing his schooling, he joined the Government College in Lahore in 1880 to obtain a law degree.
During this time he joined the movement of Arya Samaj. After completing legal education, Lala started practicing law in Jagraon. After this, he started practicing law in Rohtak and then in Hisar. He was an active worker of Arya Samaj, during which he also did the work of collecting funds for Dayanand College. He was elected as a member of the Hisar Municipal Corporation and later as a secretary.
After the death of Swami Dayanand Saraswati, Lala along with his associates started making efforts for the development of the Anglo Vedic College. He also started attending Congress meetings in Hisar and gradually became an active worker of Congress. In 1892 he moved to Lahore. When there was a famine in many parts of the country in 1897 and 1899, Lala Ji appeared at the forefront of relief work.
When the famine victims left their homes and reached Lahore, many of them were accommodated by Lalaji in his house. He also did many things for the welfare of children. When the earthquake caused tremendous devastation in Kangra, even at that time Lala Ji was at the forefront of relief and rescue operations.
Lala Lajpat Rai Lala Lajpat Rai Biography He was not only a voter of independence, but also a great social reformer and a great social worker. This was the reason that as much respect for him was in the hearts of Gandhians, as much respect was for him in the hearts of revolutionaries like Bhagat Singh and Chandrashekhar Azad. The history of the freedom struggle is full of various adventures of revolutionaries and one such brave fighter was Lala Lajpat Rai who sacrificed his life for the country.
When the British partitioned Bengal in 1905, Lala Ji joined hands with the agitators like Surendranath Banerjee and Bipin Chandra Pal and strongly opposed this decision of the British. He campaigned for the adoption of indigenous goods across the country. On 3 May 1907, the British government arrested him in Rawalpindi. Even after his release, Lalaji continued to fight for freedom.
After reaching America, Lala founded an organization named Indian Home Rule League of America in October 1917 in New York City there. Lala Ji kept working for the upliftment of his country and countrymen even while living abroad. When he returned to India on 20 February 1920, by that time he had become a hero for the countrymen.
Lala Ji attended a special session of the Congress in Calcutta in 1920. He jumped into the non-cooperation movement launched by Gandhi against the British, which was being run in principle in opposition to the Rowlatt Act. Under the leadership of Lala Lajpat Rai, this movement spread like wildfire in Punjab and soon they came to be known as 'Lion of Punjab' or 'Punjab Kesari'. Lalaji made his supreme sacrifice during the time of the Simon Commission.
On 3 February 1928, the commission reached India in protest against which fire broke out in the whole country. A major incident took place in Lahore on 30 October 1928, when youths opposing Simon led by Lala Lajpat Rai Indian independence activist were brutally beaten up. The police mercilessly pelted sticks on the chest of Lala Lajpat Rai. He was badly injured and eventually died due to this on 17 November 1928. The country had lost such a great leader, who was not only an expert in organizing the youth but also knew how to work with both peace and strength from them.
The whole country got agitated by the death of Lala Ji and Chandrashekhar Azad, Bhagat Singh, Rajguru, Sukhdev and other revolutionaries decided to avenge Lala Ji's death. These brave patriots fulfilled their pledge exactly 1 month after the death of Lala Ji and on 17 December 1928, the British police officer Saunders was shot dead. Rajguru, Sukhdev, and Bhagat Singh were sentenced to death for the murder of Saunders instead of Lalaji's death.
