On March 23, 1931, Bhagat Singh and his companions were hanged. On his hanging, Mahatma Gandhi had said that millions of people are sad because of the martyrdom of Bhagat Singh and his colleagues. We admire his passion and love. warn the young people of the country that they should not follow their path. We should imitate their unprecedented sacrifice, indomitable zeal, and courage, but those qualities should not be used like them. Independence of the country will not be achieved through violence and murder ‘
This statement of Mahatma Gandhi was published in 1931 in Allahabad, the newspaper ‘ bhavishya ‘. The English government wanted to stop the spread of newspaper reports of hanging. Thousands of copies of newspapers were seized by campaigning, but Shyam Bihari Lal of Aligarh, kept copies of the bhavishya newspaper , which became the document of future history of national movement.
Shyam Bihari Lal Gupta was a freedom fighter. After the death of Shyam Bihari Lal in 2005, his son Niranjan Lal, living in the industrial estate located at ITI Road, saved them with great care. The headlines from these newspapers in 1931 shows how the time has to go about the news of Bhagat Singh’s execution. The news of that time shows that the British wanted to suppress the news of hanging of Bhagat Singh.
Bhagat Singh’s last objection (letter written to the governor of Punjab)
In the end, we only want to say that according to your court’s decision, we have been accused of warring against the emperor and thus we are the royal prisoner of war. Therefore, we should not be hanged on the gallows by hanging them.
It is up to you to decide whether or not you will act according to whatever court has decided. We have a humble prayer to you and we have full hope that by ordering the military chief, we will call for an army or a soldier of Paltan for our life sentence.
– Sardar Bhagat Singh, March 1931, Lahore Central Jail
