‘Inquilab Zindabad’ (Long live the revolution) is the famous quote from the martyr freedom fighter Bhagat singh and the sentence was told by him just before he got executed. He was a well known Indian freedom fighter, considered to be one of the most influential revolutionaries of the Indian independence movement. He joined the Hindustan republican association at the request of Professor vidyalankar, which was then headed by Ram Prasad Bismil and Ashfaqulla khan. Bhagat singh along with Ram Prasad Bismil and Ashfaqulla khan planned the great “Kakori train robbery” through which they looted money for the freedom struggle.
Bhagat planned to take revenge on Chief. Scott, who headed the attack against the people who led the protest against the Simon commission and killed Lala Lajpat Raj with lathis at the chest. But his friend Jai Gopal mistakenly identified J.P. Saunders, a Deputy Superintendent of Police as Scott and signalled Bhagat singh to shoot. He shot him dead but escaped from the police to Lahore. In the face of his action, the British government enacted the Defense of India act to give more power to the British police. So Bhagat singh planned to stop the act and put a bomb over the central legislative assembly where the ordinance was going to be passed.
Bhagat singh and his partner Batukeshwar dutt gave themselves up for arrest after the bomb and were sentenced to Transportation for life for the bombing on June 12, 1929. He rejected others help to get him released and told “I am confident that my death will do more to smash the British Empire than my release”. While in a condemned cell in 1931, he wrote a pamphlet entitled Why I am an Atheist in which he discusses and advocates the philosophy of atheism.
“The aim of life is no more to control the mind, but to develop it harmoniously; not to achieve salvation here after, but to make the best use of it here below; and not to realise truth, beauty and good only in contemplation, but also in the actual experience of daily life; social progress depends not upon the ennoblement of the few but on the enrichment of democracy; universal brotherhood can be achieved only when there is an equality of opportunity – of opportunity in the social, political and individual life.” — from Bhagat Singh’s prison diary