Question

What is the birthplace of Bhagat Singh?
A)Banga in Pakistan
B)Multan in Pakistan
C)Rawalpindi in Pakistan
D)Lahore in Pakistan

Answer 1

Hint: Bhagat Singh was a youthful Indian Freedom warrior, who played a crucial role in altering India’s Independence struggle. He studied European revolutionary movements that created in him a penchant towards Marxist philosophies.

Complete answer: Bhagat Singh, born in 1907, west Punjab( now Banga, Pakistan) was a revolutionary folk hero of Indian Independence movement. He is remembered for the phrase’ Inquilab Zindabad’ meaning long live revolution. He was hanged at the age of 23 for the murder of Saunders and bombing the Legislative assembly. Bhagat Singh’s uncle Ajit and Swaran Singh, as well as his father Kishan Singh, were members of Ghadar Party, which was an extremist revolutionary organization founded by Sikhs with the aim of securing India’s Independence from the British rule. The party dissolved in 1948 after India gained Independence. Ghadar literally means ‘revolution’, the movement started in 1913, among the Sikhs to end British rule in their homeland India while they were in North America. The party’s leader Lala Har Dayal went to Berlin in search of arms and money to support their revolution. Bhagat Singh published a series of articles on anarchism in Kirti, from May to September 1928.
Therefore, option A is the correct answer.

Note: Bhagat Singh since childhood was politically aware as he was born in a family of dedicated nationalists. His uncle Swaran Singh spent many years in jail and his other uncle Ajit Singh founded the Bharat Mata Society and was involved in the peasantry. He evolved as a political being and participated in Anti-Colonial struggles frequently.