Question

The revolutionary leader who had organized an attack on the armoury of Chittagong was ________________.

Answer 1

Hint:
- In Bangladesh, Chittagong plays an important role.

- The port of Chittagong is the principal gateway to the country by sea, one of the oldest ports in the world, whose coast appears on Ptolemy's map.


Complete answer:

Chittagong –
- Chittagong is a large harbour town on Bangladesh's south-east coast.
- The Museum of Ethnology displays many ethnic groups throughout the world.
- Within the former Old Circuit House Museum Zia Memorial shows the exhibits of Ziaur Rahman, former President, who had been murdered on the premises in 1981.
- The harbour is Bagala's most busy international seaport and South Asia's third most busy.

Surya Sen, who led the 1930 Chittagong armoured raid, was a Bengali Independence fighter. In Chittagong, he revolted against British rule and for a few days banned British rule. One of his successful businesses was a major daylight robbery in the treasury office at Chittagong's Bengal-Assam Railway on 23 December 1933.

Surya Sen –
- Surya Sen was born in Noapara, Chittagong, Bangladesh today, on March 22, 1894. His dad was an educator.
- He joined the revolutionary Bengali-based Anushilan Samiti. In 1918 he graduated and began working in Chittagong as a mathematician. He educated and cultivated young people in armaments and bombing.
- He shook a conspiracy to raid and seize weapons and ammunition from the army, cut off the rest of India's communication and isolate Chittagong. The occurrence was also known as the Armory Attack of Chittagong.
- Ganesh Ghosh, Lokenath Bal, Ananta Singh and others were Sen's partners in that venture.
- On 18 April 1930, the proposal was adopted.
- Sen raided the police armoury in Chittagong along with his associates. The armour of the auxiliary forces was raided by another party. The rebels took arms but could not find ammunition. The telephone, telegram and railway lines were however cut off.
- Sen picked up the Indian flag and declared the provisional revolutionary government in the Police Armoury premises.

Note:
- They escaped to Jalalabad Hills after the raid. On April 22, rebels in the mountains were engaged in a gunfight by government forces.

- Twelve rebels had been killing while others fled, including Sen. In the war, some 80 government troops were murdered.

- In several places, Sen was shrouded in a mask to escape British capture. However, a man named Netra Sen betrayed him, in whose house he had hidden, and the police arrested him in February 1933.

- Netra Sen was later assassinated in retaliation for betrayal by other revolutionaries. Before being hanged on 12 January 1934 Surya Sen has been brutally tortured by the police. He was thirty-nine years old.