SARDAR BHAGAT SINGH
(May 23, 1907 - March 23, 1931)

Sardar Bhagat Singh was born at Kalyanpur, Punjab on May 23, 1907 in a reputed Sikh family of freedom fighters.
His father Sardar Kishan Singh was also a freedom fighter.
Bhagat Singh completed his primary education in Bengal. After that he was admitted to Lahore D. A. V High School.
On the call of Mahatma Gandhi he left the school and joined the Non-Cooperation Movement. Later, Bhagat Singh left Lahore and came to Kanpur where he met noted revolutionists like Yashpal, Batukeshwar Dutt, Yogesh Chandra Chatterjee and Chandra Shekhar Azad.
In 1928, he took a pledge to kill British officers Skirt and Saunders who brutally lathicharged Indians during the protest against Simon Commission. On December 17, 1928 he fulfilled his pledge by shooting down the infamous Saunders.
Bhagat Singh was also involved in the sensational Assembly Bomb Case' of 1929. On March 23, 1931 Bhagat Singh, together with Rajguru and Sukhdev, was hanged by the British government on his birthday.
He was then 24 years old.

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