108 Birth Anniversary Shaheed Bhagat Singh

2. “IT IS BETTER TO LIVE LIKE A LION
FOR A DAY THEN TO LIVE LIKE A JACKAL
FOR YEARS”
108th Birth Anniversary (28th Sep.15)

3. INTRODUCTION
Shaheed Bhagat Singhji was born on
28 September 1907,in Lallpur, in
Punjab, but now it is the part of
Pakistan.
He has been entitled as shaheed
which means a great soul or martyr.
He lived a short but worth full life,
he passed at the age of 23 on 23rd
march 1931.

4. FAMILY
BHAGAT SINGH was born in “SANDHU” family ,a
tribe found in Punjab.
Son of Sardar Kishan Singh Sandhu and vidhyavati, he
was their 2nd
child.
Patriotism was in his blood , his father and uncle
AJIT SINGH were a revolutionary and at the time of
Bhagat’s birth his father and uncle were in jail due to
there connection in Canal Colonization bill agitation.

5. Ajit Singh – Uncle Of Bhagat Singh

6. Kishan Singh - Father

7. Bhagat Singh, a great reader and
thinker was able to break the jail
conditions, even when officially
not allowed he was reading and
writing but finally after long
hunger strike got the right of
reading & writing included in Jail
Manuals. Thus he maintained a
note book of 404 pages and kept
notes & quotes from the books he
read.

8. Picture of his writings

10. Quote written by him
Aim of life:
"The aim of life is no more to control mind, but to
develop it harmoniously, not to achieve salvation here
after, but to make the best use of it here below, and
not to realize truth, beauty and good only in
contemplation, but also in-the actual experience of
daily life; social progress depends not upon the
involvement of the few, but on the enrichment
democracy or universal brotherhood, which can be
achieved only, when there is an equality of
opportunity, of opportunity in the social, political and
individual life”.

11. EDUCATION
He passed his 5th
class from his school
at village, then he joined DAV ( Dayanand
Anglo-Vedic ) school.
But in the call of Mahatma Gandhi and
other national leaders to boycott
government aided institutions and british
goods he gave up his school and joined
National college at Lahore and tored his
all text books published by british govt.

12. He was deeply touched by the
incident of “JALIANWALA BAGH”.
He went to that spot and collected
soil in his lunch box and kept it as a
memory for life.
At the age of 13, Bhagat Singh
joined Ghandhiji in his non-
cooperation movement.
EARLY LIFE

13. Personality Traits Of Bhagat Singh
LEADERSHIP
CO-OPERATIVE
LOVING
COURAGEOUS
FEARLESS
FIGHTING SPIRIT
PATRIOTIC

14. LOVING
Bhagat Singh loved his nation and his parents also.
He was just 8yrs old, when his father died on 16th
November 1915.
When Bhagat Singh was arrested, a photo of his
father was found in his pocket. This shows his love
to his father.
Once he was asked for his marriage.
He said,
“If my marriage is to take place in slave India, my
bride shall be dead.”

15. LEADERSHIP
He was a very effective person, he motivated
the youth to participate in revolution.
He was the founder of HSRA,
i.e. Hindustan Socialist Republican Association.

16. CO-OPERATIVE
Bhagat , Rajguru, sukhdev all
were members of HSRA, all
worked together co-operating
each other, they used to
educate people, distribute food
to hungry children and work in
flooded area and organise all
the meetings very peacefully.

17. FEARLESS
As the death of Lala Lajpat Rai had a
great influence on him, he took a vow to take the
revenge as Lala was a good friend of his father.

18. COURAGEOUS
BOMBARDING IN ASSEMBLY:-
He was against the policy called
‘The Defence Of Indian Act’
They threw fake bombs in the assembly that only made
sound and started shouting-
‘Inquilab Zindabad’ and then flew some leaflets
saying “It takes a loud voice to make a deaf hear” and
then he and his companions surrendered themselves to
police.

19. FIGHTING SPIRIT
He was jailed first
time at the age of 20.
Once when he was in a
jail, he did a food
strike of 63 days
demanding same
treatment, food and
facilities as british
prisoners or rich indian
politician prisoner got.

20. PATRIOTIC
 Bhagat singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev were
sentenced to death on 7th
oct 1930.
 They started shouting slogans
“Inquilab Zindabad”
“ Down Down Union Government”
“Up Up National Flag”
“Down With British Imperialism”

21. Their bodies were taken to firozpur on
the bank of satluj. The same night they
were ceremented.
Bhagat Singh’s Death

22. Tribute to Bhagat Singh
In 1950, after independence, the land
where Bhagat singh and his companions were
ceremated was procured from pakistan and a
memorial was built.
In march 1961, a shahidi mela was held
there. Every year, on 23rd
march martyr’s
memory is similarly honoured.
Bhagat Singh is remembered by the
endearing title of ‘Shahid-e-Azam’,
the greatest of martyrs.