Claim: Bhagat Singh was a folk hero of the Indian independence movement.
Evidence: Bhagat Singh -LRB- -LSB- pə̀ɡət̪ sɪ́ŋɡ -RSB- -- 23 March 1931 -RRB- was a charismatic Indian socialist revolutionary whose two acts of dramatic violence against the British in India and execution at age 23 made him a folk hero of the Indian independence movement.