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Rajguru & Sukhdev
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Rajguru & Sukhdev

ਰਾਜਗੁਰੂ ਤੇ ਸੁਖਦੇਵشِیۉرام راجگرو

Comrades of Bhagat Singh in the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association, hanged with him in Lahore on 23 March 1931.

Shivaram Rajguru, born in 1908 at Khed near Pune, and Sukhdev Thapar, born in 1907 in Ludhiana, were members of the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association with Bhagat Singh.

Rajguru fired the first shot at the British police officer J. P. Saunders in Lahore on 17 December 1928, in revenge for the death of Lala Lajpat Rai. Sukhdev was one of the organisers of the HSRA in the Punjab.

Both were tried in the Lahore Conspiracy Case and hanged with Bhagat Singh in Lahore on 23 March 1931. Their memorial stands with his at Hussainiwala.

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Bhagat Singh
Bhagat Singh1907 – 1931

Socialist revolutionary hanged in Lahore at twenty-three with Rajguru and Sukhdev. Among the most celebrated figures of India's independence movement.

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