Lala Lajpat Rai who played a vital role in liberating slave India, against British rule in India. He was great revolutionaries, one of the three prominent heroes of the Indian independence struggle (Lala Lajpat Rai, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, and Bipin Chandra Pal). Lala Lajpat Rai was not only a true patriot, but he was also a good writer, lawyer, social reformer and Himmati freedom fighter and a good leader.
The image of Lala Lajpat Rai, the great general of India's independence struggle, is primarily as a great nationalist leader. Lala Lajpat not only defeated the British governor' intentions by making powerful speeches against British rule, but he was also called 'Punjab Kesari' or 'Lion of Punjab' due to his patriotism.
Lala Lajpat Rai Biography:
The image of Lala Lajpat Rai, the great general of India's independence struggle, is primarily as a great nationalist leader. Lala Lajpat not only defeated the British governor' intentions by making powerful speeches against British rule, but he was also called 'Punjab Kesari' or 'Lion of Punjab' due to his patriotism.
He also founded Laxmi Insurance Company and Punjab National Bank (PNB). The slave fought fiercely till the last breath to liberate India and in the end, Lala Lajpat Rai was martyred.
Early Life and Education:
Honored with the title of 'Lion of Punjab' and India's great writer, Lala Lajpat Rai was born in an ordinary family from Dhudike village in Ferozepur district, Punjab on 28 January 1865. His father's name was Lala Radhakrishna who was a Persian and Urdu scholar.His mother's name was Gulab Devi, he was a religious woman and inspired the moral values of religion even among her children. Lala's family allowed to Lajpat Rai freedom of various religions and beliefs.
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Government Higher Secondary School, Rewari, where his father was posted as a teacher. Lala,s primary study was also completed from this school. In 1880, Lajpat Rai was admitted to the Lahore Government College, to study law.
When he in college he came in contact with patriots and future revolutionary like Lala Hans Raj and Pandit Guru Dutt. He studied law from Government College in Lahore and then moved to Hisar, Haryana, where he started his legal practice. Although he was not interested in earning money in advocacy.
Since childhood, he had wanted to social work for his country and wanted to free it from British rule.
In 1877 Lala Lajpat Rai married Radha Devi. He then participated as a delegate during the annual sessions of the National Congress in 1888 and 1889. In the year 1892 for practice in the High Court, he went to Lahore.
There he laid the foundation of Punjab National Bank and Laxmi Insurance Company. Lala Lajpat Rai got the membership of Hisar Municipality, then after he also became a secretary, and he comes out as the most popular leader of Punjab.
Political Career and Freedom Struggle:
He then got a direction to move forward in the Congress during the session of the 'Indian National Congress', his impressive speech in Allahabad caught the attention of 80 enlightened people presents there, which further increased his fame.He shifted from Hisar to Lahore with the aim of serving the country, where he had a wide scope and possibilities for his country service work and social work because here was the Punjab High Court.
He actively participated in the protest against the partition the division of Bengal, he played a leading role in the indigenous movement, he was neutralized by the repressive policies of the British government and continued to work for the honor of the country.
The revolution brought by him sparked a wave of change in Lahore and Rawalpindi in 1907, Due to which, he was put in Mandalay jail for 6 months in the same year.
In 1912, he joined the Congress after two years that he went to England as a delegate of the Congress. Due to the World War of 1914, he could not stay in England for six months and he left for America. In the US, he openly discussed the British government's oppressiveness in Indians people with revolutionary books and speeches.
In Amerika, he founded the 'Indian Home Rule League' and in addition started publishing a magazine which called "Young India". In which Indian culture and the country's need for independence were written, and this magazine brought him fame worldwide.
Lala Lajpat Rai became President of the National Congress in a special session held after returning to India in September 1920. His increasing popularity and patriotism made him a national hero, people started to trust him, and became his followers.
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In the following year, he founded the "Servants of People Society" in Lahore, the British government was also frightened by his increasing popularity. As a result, he was imprisoned from 1921 to 1923.
After getting liberated from jail, his attention also went to the increasing communal issues in the country, which started becoming a menace to the country. He understood the importance of Hindu-Muslim unity, under this situation he organized the "Hindu Mahasabha" in Calcutta In 1925.
There his impressive and powerful speech inspired many Hindus to joined in the country's independence struggle. One year earlier, he wrote that the communal relationship is not good right now, but the demand for all of them is the same and that is freedom, which the British Government will have to accept.
Simon Commission:
In 1928, he organized rallies and speeches to protest against the British rule for bringing Simon Commission. He also wanted to protest this commission with peacefully, his demand was that if the Indians could not remain in the commission, then the commission has to go back to their country.In reaction to which the Superintendent of Police, James A.Scott ordered to lathi-charge, in which Lalaji was badly injured.
Death :
Subsequently, Lala Lajpat Rai suffered a serious injury due to a stroke, for this, he remains in the hospital for several days. And ultimately he died of a heart attack in 1928 on 17 November. Even today, the day of his death, November 17 is an honored as Martyr's Day.
At that time too, due to the unforeseen death of Lalaji, a wave of fury against the British spread among the revolutionaries and they thought of revenge his death. Bhagat Singh and his comrades along with Chandrasekhar Azad planned to assassinate Scott, but mistakenly the revolutionaries shot JP Sanders instead of Scott.