PaRCha - JNU - AISA material - 2005 ID-15354
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Shahadat Saptah .
Bhagat Singh-Pash-Chandrashekhar: .
The Spring Thunder of Their Call Continues to Resound .
Long Live Bhagat Singhs Struggle .
For a Free and Egalitarian Socialist India and World! .
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March 23, 1931 the day that Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev were hanged to death. Their martyrdom sparked off a new debate in the whole freedom struggle, inspiring thousands of young people to embrace the path of revolution, and posing a question mark to the Congress-led model of freedom movement. Commenting on this model, Bhagat Singh wrote in 1931, "This struggle is based on middle-class shopkeepers and a few capitalists...but the real revolutionary armies are in the fields and the factories -peasants and workers. But our 'bourgeois' leaders do not, cannot, dare to join hands with them..." Recognising the dangers of British-sponsored communalism, and of a freedom struggle waged in a religious idiom, Bhagat Singh called for a complete separation of religion from politics, and declared that only a secular society could be the basis for a modern and free India. .
The British hanged Bhagat Singh, because his ideas were doubly dangerous not only did he speak of freedom from the British; inspired by the Russian Revolution, he spoke of liberating humanity from exploitation, of fighting for a socialist society. These were the ideas that the British hoped to kill by hanging him. .
But Bhagat Singhs martyrdom continues to inspire young people in India even today. Asked during the JNUSU Presidential Debate if he was contesting for JNUSU out of ambition, Comrade Chandrashekhar replied, Yes, Im ambitious; my ambition is for a life like Bhagat Singh and a death like Ché Guevara! Truly, Chandu kept his promise. In the same spring month of March in which Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev and Rajguru had smilingly faced imperialist gallows, Chandrashekhar boldly faced assassins bullets while addressing a street-corner meeting in his hometown Siwan. .
In the late 60s and the 70s, the very flower of Bengals youth responded to Charu Majumdars call, burning their degrees and facing brutal murder and torture. Their crime? With the spring thunder of Naxalbari, they were bringing alive Bhagat Singhs dream of joining hands with the revolutionary armies in the fields and the factories. .
Even today, those who struggle for the India of Bhagat Singh's dreams are killed by the ruling classes -be it former JNUSU President Comrade Chandrashekhar, Manju Devi who challenged the Ranveer Sena, or workers' leaders like Datta Samant and Niyogi, or the beloved CPI(ML) MLA Mahendra Singh, who was killed by the BJP Government in Jharkhand. As .
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PaRCha - JNU - AISA material - 2005 ID-15354
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Shahadat Saptah .
Bhagat Singh-Pash-Chandrashekhar: .
The Spring Thunder of Their Call Continues to Resound .
Long Live Bhagat Singhs Struggle .
For a Free and Egalitarian Socialist India and World! .
.
March 23, 1931 the day that Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev were hanged to death. Their martyrdom sparked off a new debate in the whole freedom struggle, inspiring thousands of young people to embrace the path of revolution, and posing a question mark to the Congress-led model of freedom movement. Commenting on this model, Bhagat Singh wrote in 1931, "This struggle is based on middle-class shopkeepers and a few capitalists...but the real revolutionary armies are in the fields and the factories -peasants and workers. But our 'bourgeois' leaders do not, cannot, dare to join hands with them..." Recognising the dangers of British-sponsored communalism, and of a freedom struggle waged in a religious idiom, Bhagat Singh called for a complete separation of religion from politics, and declared that only a secular society could be the basis for a modern and free India. .
The British hanged Bhagat Singh, because his ideas were doubly dangerous not only did he speak of freedom from the British; inspired by the Russian Revolution, he spoke of liberating humanity from exploitation, of fighting for a socialist society. These were the ideas that the British hoped to kill by hanging him. .
But Bhagat Singhs martyrdom continues to inspire young people in India even today. Asked during the JNUSU Presidential Debate if he was contesting for JNUSU out of ambition, Comrade Chandrashekhar replied, Yes, Im ambitious; my ambition is for a life like Bhagat Singh and a death like Ché Guevara! Truly, Chandu kept his promise. In the same spring month of March in which Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev and Rajguru had smilingly faced imperialist gallows, Chandrashekhar boldly faced assassins bullets while addressing a street-corner meeting in his hometown Siwan. .
In the late 60s and the 70s, the very flower of Bengals youth responded to Charu Majumdars call, burning their degrees and facing brutal murder and torture. Their crime? With the spring thunder of Naxalbari, they were bringing alive Bhagat Singhs dream of joining hands with the revolutionary armies in the fields and the factories. .
Even today, those who struggle for the India of Bhagat Singh's dreams are killed by the ruling classes -be it former JNUSU President Comrade Chandrashekhar, Manju Devi who challenged the Ranveer Sena, or workers' leaders like Datta Samant and Niyogi, or the beloved CPI(ML) MLA Mahendra Singh, who was killed by the BJP Government in Jharkhand. As .
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