‘Bhagat Singh wished for secular, egalitarian India, but inequality still exists’

As the nation observes martyrdom day of Bhagat Singh Tuesday, specialists on his life and writings mentioned that points picked up by him a long time in the past proceed to be related even right this moment throughout the nation.
“Bhagat Singh did not merely wish to free India from colonial bondage but dreamed of independent India, which would be egalitarian and secular,” mentioned Prof Jagmohan Singh, Bhagat Singh’s nephew and the chairperson of Shaheed Bhagat Singh Centenary Foundation and normal secretary of Democratic Rights Association who had labored to spotlight the true ideology of the martyr.
He talked about that within the June 1928 concern of the Kirti, the Journal of the Kirti Kisan Sabha, revealed from Amritsar, Bhagat Singh wrote two articles titled Achoot Ka Sawaal (Question of Untouchability) and Sampradayik Dange Aur Unka Ilaj (Communal riots and their options).
What Bhagat Singh wrote in 1928 seems to be legitimate even right this moment after we see communal riots throughout the nation, he added.
“Let it be known that Bhagat Singh and his companions carried forward the revolutionary nationalism of Aurbindo Ghosh, Sardar Ajit Singh and Gadar revolutionaries and had very distinct views of organising society on equality and fraternity along with liberty from social evils like communalism and casteism. Whereas today the Centre government led by BJP stands for Hindu nationalism against the secular culture of the country and tends to act for the benefits corporates,” mentioned Prof Jagmohan.
Gurmit Singh, a trustee of Desh Bhagat Yadgar Hall, Jalandhar, mentioned: “Bhagat Singh had diagnosed that inequality in the society can never bring real freedom and advocated socialist way of working where everyone has equal rights to work and earn. He wrote about the universal brotherhood and this is what our farmers’ protest is representing where farmers are being treated just as a farmers and not as individuals belonging to any religion.”
“He was aware that when the government and government systems fail to solve the issues of the people they adopt tactics to divide them on the name of religion and caste and the same is happening today,” mentioned one other professional. Communal riots was a device utilized by the British to divide individuals in India and the identical is going on in free India, he added.
Gurmeet Singh identified that regardless of having the fitting to equality as our elementary proper, a lot of complaints are obtained by our National Commission for Scheduled Caste yearly about atrocities in opposition to Dalits.
They (Bhagat Singh and his fellow revolutionaries) wrote that “by revolution we mean the end of the miseries of capitalist wars,” mentioned Prof Singh, including that also the widespread man of the nation is combating with numerous kinds of miseries and tens of millions live under the poverty line having no correct means to earn their dwelling and for them freedom exists nowhere.