Prime Minister Narendra Modi will pay tribute to freedom fighters Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev and Rajguru in Punjab on the occasion of their 84th martyrdom anniversary on Monday.
Modi will visit Hussainiwala, Punjab, where the last rites of the three were performed after they were hanged in Lahore on 23rd March 1931. He will also visit the Golden Temple and the Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar to pay homage to those who were martyred during India's freedom struggle in the early part of the 20th century.
"In Punjab today. Will pay homage to Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev & Rajguru at Hussainiwala & will go to Golden Temple & Jallianwala Bagh," he said in a tweet. In another tweet written in Hindi, he said, "Tributes to these great patriots - Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev-on their martyrdom day, who sacrificed their lives for the nation."
Bhagat Singh and B K Dutt threw a bomb inside the Central Assembly hall in New Delhi on April 8, 1929 to protest against the British rule in India. Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev were also tried for shooting and killing British Superintendent of Police Saunders on December 17, 1928, and were awarded the death sentence.
Following a hasty trial of the Lahore Conspiracy Case, they were executed a day earlier than the scheduled hanging in the Central Jail at Lahore at 7.15 p.m. on March 23, 1931
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