ER CELEBRATED BIRTH ANNIVERSARY OF LALA LAJPAT RAI
Kolkata, January 28, 2022:As part of 'Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav’, Eastern Railway Headquarters celebrated birth anniversary of Lala Lajpat Rai at Eastern Railway Headquarters today (28.01.2022). Sri Arun Arora, General Manager, Eastern Railway, Sri Shekhar Ranjan Ghoshal Additional General Manager, Eastern Railway, and other officers of Eastern Railway offered floral tribute to the portrait of Lala Lajpat Rai. Lala Lajpat Rai (28 January 1865 - 17 November 1928) was an Indian author, revolutionary, and politician. He played a pivotal role In the Indi an Independence movement. He was popularly known as Punjab Kesari. He was one of the three members of the Lal Bal Pal triumvirate.Rai was born on 28 January 1865 In Agarwal Jain family as a son of Urdu and Persian government school teacher Munshi Radha Krishna Agarwal and his wife Guiab Devi at Dhudike in Ludhiana district of Punjab Province.In 1880, Lajpat Rai joined Government College at Lahore to study law, where he came in contact with patriots and future freedom fighters, such as Lala Hans Raj and Pandit Guru Dutt . After joining the Indian National Congress and taking part in political agitation in Punjab. During World War I, Lajpat Rai lived in the United States, where he founded the Indian Home Rule League of America (1917) in New York City. He returned to India in early 1920, and later that year he led a special session of the Congress Party that launched Mahatma Gandhi's noncooperation movement. Imprisoned from 1921 to 1923, he was elected to the legislative assembly on his release.
In 1928, the United Kingdom set up the Simon Commission, headed by Sir John Simon to report on the political situation in India. When the Commission visited Lahore on 30 October 1928, Lajpat Rai led a non violent march in protest against it and gave a slogan "Simon Go Back". The police superintendent in Lahore, James A. Scott, ordered the police to lathi charge the protesters and personally assaulted Rai. Despite being severely injured, Rai subsequently addressed the crowd and said "I declare that the blows struck at me today will be the last nails in the coffin of British rule in India". Rai did not fully recover from his injuries and died on 17 November 1928. Lala Lajpat Rai was a heavyweight veteran leader of Indian Nationalist Movement, Indian Independent Movement led by the Indian National Congress, Hindu Mahasabha, Hindu Reform Movements and Arya Samaj.
Lajpat Rai's most Important writings include the Story of My Deportation (1908), Arya Samaj (1915), The United States of America: A Hindu's Impression (1916), England's Debt to India: A Historical Narrative of Britain's Fiscal Policy in India (1917), and Unhappy India (1928).
