Título: Bhagat Singh
Seção: Lala Lajpat Rai's death and killing of Saunders
Background: Bhagat Singh, a Sandhu Jat, was born in 1907 to Kishan Singh and Vidyavati at Chak No. 105 GB, Banga village, Jaranwala Tehsil in the Lyallpur district of the Punjab Province of British India. His birth coincided with the release of his father and two uncles, Ajit Singh and Swaran Singh, from jail. His family members were Sikhs; some had been active in Indian Independence movements, others had served in Maharaja Ranjit Singh's army.

Conteúdo: In 1928, the British government set up the Simon Commission to report on the political situation in India. Some Indian political parties boycotted the Commission because there were no Indians in its membership, and there were protests across the country. When the Commission visited Lahore on 30 October 1928, Lala Lajpat Rai led a march in protest against it. Police attempts to disperse the large crowd resulted in violence. The superintendent of police, James A. Scott, ordered the police to lathi charge (use batons against) the protesters and personally assaulted Rai, who was injured. Rai died of a heart attack on 17 November 1928. Doctors thought that his death might have been hastened by the injuries he had received. When the matter was raised in the Parliament of the United Kingdom, the British Government denied any role in Rai's death.  Bhagat was a prominent member of the HRA and was probably responsible, in large part, for its change of name to HSRA in 1928. The HSRA vowed to avenge Rai's death. Singh conspired with revolutionaries like Shivaram Rajguru, Sukhdev Thapar, and Chandrashekhar Azad to kill Scott. However, in a case of mistaken identity, the plotters shot John P. Saunders, an Assistant Superintendent of Police, as he was leaving the District Police Headquarters in Lahore on 17 December 1928.  Contemporary reaction to the killing differs substantially from the adulation that later surfaced. The Naujawan Bharat Sabha, which had organised the Lahore protest march

user: How did Lala die?

assistant: Rai died of a heart attack

user: When did he die?

assistant: 17 November 1928.

user: What was Lala's relationship to Singh?

assistant: Bhagat was a prominent member of the HRA and was probably responsible, in large part, for its change of name to HSRA in 1928.

user: What is the HRA/HSRA?

assistant: The HSRA vowed to avenge Rai's death.

user: Who is Saunders?

assistant: plotters shot John P. Saunders, an Assistant Superintendent of Police, as he was leaving the District Police Headquarters in Lahore on 17 December 1928.

user: Was anyone arrested for it?

assistant: Singh conspired with revolutionaries like Shivaram Rajguru, Sukhdev Thapar, and Chandrashekhar Azad to kill Scott.

user: Are there any other interesting aspects about this article?

assistant: Contemporary reaction to the killing differs substantially from the adulation that later surfaced.

user: How does it differ?

assistant: The murder was condemned as a retrograde action by Mahatma Gandhi, the Congress leader,

user: and the opposite reaction?

assistant: He became a symbol, the act was forgotten, the symbol remained,

user: what other reactions were there?

assistant: within a few months each town and village of the Punjab, and to a lesser extent in the rest of northern India, resounded with his name.

user: Did anyone else react?

assistant: Innumerable songs grew about him and the popularity that the man achieved was something amazing.