Bhagat Singh:The revolutionary within
“It is easy to kill individuals but you cannot kill the ideas. Great empires crumbled, while the ideas survived!” On 8th April 1929, at 12.30 pm, Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt threw two bombs in the central assembly Chamber with leaflets flying reflecting their spirit and outlining their aims, and exposing the hypocrisy of the British establishment to cloak the Indian people with false promises. Ironically, Sir John Simon, who was the chairman of the infamous Simon Commission, was also present during the session. Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt, who had all the time in this universe to flee from the scene, instead offered themselves for arrest as they never intended to escape. While offering arrest, they shouted the Slogans ‘Inquilab Zindabad’ (Long live the revolution). Singh and Dutt eventually responded to the criticism by writing the Assembly Bomb Statement: “We hold human life sacred beyond words. We are neither perpetrators of dastardly outrages ... nor are we 'lunatic