Chandra Shekhar Azad

Context

• Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi has paid tributes to Chandra Shekhar Azad on his Jayanti.

About

• Chandra Shekhar Azad was an Indian revolutionary who reorganised the Hindustan Republican Association (HRA) under its new name of Hindustan Socialist Republican Association (HSRA).
• Political Ideology: Liberalism, Socialism, and Anarchism

• In December 1921, Mahatma Gandhi launched the non-cooperation movement. Azad took part in the movement and he was arrested by the British. When Azad was produced before a judge, he gave his name as "Azad" which means "free" in Urdu.
• He was involved in

1. Kakori Train Robbery of 1925,
2. the shooting of J. P. Saunders at Lahore in 1928 to avenge the killing of Lala Lajpat Rai, and,

• attempt to blow up the Viceroy of India's train in 1929.
• He used to fondly recite a Hindustani couplet, his only poetic composition: 'Dushman ki goliyon ka hum saamna karenge. Azad hi rahein hain, azad hi rahenge'

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