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Chandrasekhar Azad.
23 July is the birth anniversary of the great freedom fighter and revolutionary, Chandrasekhar Azad (1906-1931).
Chandrasekhar, born in Bhovra, Madhya Pradesh , was attracted to the national movement led by Mahatma Gandhi, following the Jallianwala Bagh massacre of 1919, at the tender age of 15.
He was later arrested but he gave his name as Azad before the magistrate. He came to be known as Azad thereafter.
Azad participated in the Kakori train robbery in 1925 and was the chief strategist of the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association led by Bhagat Singh.
He was involved in the shooting of British police superintendent Sanders in Lahore in 1928, to avenge the of Lala Lajpat Rai following a brutal assault by the police.
While in hiding, he was betrayed, and to avoid capture by the British police, Azad shot himself in the Alfred park ( since renamed Chandrasekhar Azad park ), Allahabad on 27 February, 1931.
The martyr was aged only 25.
– Joy Kallivayalil.
