Chandra Shekhar Azad Birth Anniversary | 23 Jul 2024

Source: PIB

Recently, the Prime Minister paid tributes to Chandra Shekhar Azad on his birth anniversary, 23rd July 2024. He was a popular Indian leader and revolutionary, who fought valiantly for Indian independence.

  • He was born on 23rd July 1906 in the Alirajpur district of Madhya Pradesh.
  • As a 15-year-old student, joined the Non-Cooperation Movement in December 1921.
  • After the suspension of the non-cooperation movement in 1922 by Gandhi, Azad joined Hindustan Republican Association (HRA).
    • HRA was a revolutionary organization, established in 1924 in Kanpur by Sachindra Nath Sanyal, Ram Prasad Bismil, and Jogesh Chandra Chatterjee, to organise an armed revolution to overthrow the colonial government.
    • Members were Bhagat Singh, Chandra Shekhar Azad, Sukhdev, Roshan Singh, Ashfaqulla Khan, and Rajendra Lahiri.
  • HRA was later reorganised as the Hindustan Socialist Republican Army (HSRA).
    • It was established in 1928 at Feroz Shah Kotla in New Delhi by Chandra Shekhar Azad, Ashfaqulla Khan, Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev Thapar and Jogesh Chandra Chatterjee.
  • Chandra Shekar Azad was also involved in the conspiracy to blow up Lord Irwin's train in 1929.
  • He was martyred at Azad Park in Allahabad on 27th February 1931.

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