FORGOTTEN REVOLUTIONARIES ... 1

FORGOTTEN REVOLUTIONARIES ... 1

Bijoy Kumar Sinha and Raj Kumar Kumar Sinha played seminal roles in the extreme revolutionary movement for freedom in India.

Bijoy Kumar Sinha was born on 17 Jan, 1909 at Kanpur. While in Christ Church College he joined the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association along with two friends of his, Ajoy Ghosh and Batukeswar Dutt. He was convicted in the Lahore ConspiracyCase but could not be immediately apprehended by the police. He went underground for full two years before being arrested and sent to the notorious Lahore Jail. Bijoy Kumar Sinha was also involved in the in the Delhi Conspiracy Case. His brother, Raj Kumar Sinha, had participated in the Kakori Train Robbery.

Inside Lahore Jail conditions for the political prisoners was so abominable, nay, subhuman, that the convicts all lodged their protest by means of indefinite hunger strike till the conditions were improved by the authorities. Jatin Das died after his 63 day fast. Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev, Rajguru and a host of others also participated and rocked up the British authorities. Bijoy Kumar Sinha was also a participant in this famous hunger strike.

When the judgement of the Lahore Conspiracy Case was out, Bijoy Kumar Sinha was sentenced to lifetime deportation to the dreaded Cellular Jail in the Andamans. Here he again participated in a hunger strike. In 1937 the Government repatriated the Cellular political prisoners and Bijoy Kumar Sinha was incarcerated in a mainland Indian jail. In 1945 he was eventually released.

This is the brief profile of one who had engaged in revolutionary activity of an extreme kind to free us from colonial shackles and suffered in consequence a lifetime of imprisonment and torture in the dreaded Cellular Jail. Today, he remains a forgotten hero as we, who breathe the air of freedom on account of the sacrifices of revolutionaries like him, have conveniently chosen to cast his memory into oblivion. I ask one question just. Are we men? Do we deserve to be free?

Written by Sugata Bose

Photo : Bijoy Kumar Sinha

Source : https://shibham.wordpress.com/2011/09/10/our-real-heroes-59-bijoy-kumar-sinha/