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Elaborate Chandra Shekhar Azad’s role in the national movement.

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Contribution of Chandra Shekhar Azad in national movement: 

1. Joined the Bhartiya Kranti Dal: 

Non – cooperation movement was postponed after one year which resulted into great disappointment. At such a time, the youth of the country were joining the Kranti Dal in large numbers. Chandra Shekhar Azad also joined the Kranti Dal and secretly began to conduct his revolutionary activities. Sardar Bhagat Singh also joined the Kranti Dal. Ramprasad Bismil was the leader of this Kranti Dal.

2. Role in the train Dacoily at Kakori: 

The workers of the Hindustani Republican Army needed money to buy arms and weapons, so that they could face the tyranny of the British administration. So they stopped the train carrying British government cash at Kakori, and looted it under a well – planned scheme. Although the dacoity had been very wisely planned and intelligently executed, yet the British government had its knowledge.

All the revolutionaries involved in the dacoity were arrested and tried. Some of them were hanged to death and the remaining ones underwent long terms of imprisonment. Chandra Shekhar Azad and Ram Prasad Bismil had participated in this dacoity, but the British government could not arrest them in spite of their best efforts.

3. Murder of Saunders: 

Lala Lajpat Rai was leading the procession which was boycotting the Simon Commission, on 20th October 1928. Lala Lajpat Rai was fatally injured in the lathi charge by the police superintendent Scott. Consequently, Lala died on 17th November 1928. The fatal lathi change on Lala Lajpat Rai was like crushing the national movement.

So, to avenge the insult done to the national movement, Chandra Shekhar Azad, in the company of Sardar Bhagat Singh and Raj guru, planned to assassinate Scott, but assistant police superintendent Saunders was killed in place of Scott, while he was coming out of the police station at Lahore on 17th December 1928. All the three revolutionaries tricked the British Police and escaped elsewhere from Lahore.

4. Conducted the struggle of Freedom while staying outside the jail: 

When Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt threw a bomb in the Central Assembly Hall at Delhi, both of them were the members of the Hindustan Socialist Republican Army. By the mid of 1929, the British government had arrested and jailed most of the main leaders of this army. However, Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt were not included among them. On 23rd March 1931, Rajguru, Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt were hanged to death. In spite of it, Chandra Shekhar Azad carried on the national movement with the help and co – operation of his fellow revolutionaries.

5. To continue the national struggle upto the last: 

On 27th February 1931,Chandra Shekhar Azad, Yash Pal and Surendra Pandey met at Allahabad to finalize the programme of going to Russia. The same day, Chandra Shekhar Azad reached Alfred Park, Allahabad, to meet SukhDev. While Azad was talking to him under a tree, the British police reached there on the information of some traitor. The police commander asked them to surrender.

Chandra Shekhar Azad helped his fellow revolutionary to escape from there. Azad went on answering the police firing. But when he came to know that there was only one bullet left in his pistol, he killed himself with the last bullet because he did not want to be killed by the enemy’s bullet. Chandra Shekhar Azad had vowed, “We will face the enemy’s bullet, we have lived free and will die free”. Thus, Azad remained unshaken from his vow till the end.

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