Pandit Ram Prasad Bismil, born in 1897 in Shahjahanpur district of Uttar Pradesh as the son of Mata Moolarani and father Muralidhar, is well known. His father Muralidhar was employed in Shahjahanpur municipality. Pandit Ram Prasad Bismil, was one of those great freedom fighters who lost their lives fighting for the freedom of the country from the British rule. Ram Prasad Bismil was the prominent freedom fighter who was involved in Kakori incident.
He was also a great poet and poet. He wrote poems in the Urdu and Hindi, he wrote poems in the names of Rama and Bismil, but he came up with the famous name "Bismil Kalmi".
He immortalized songs like Sarfaroshi ki Tamanna,
“सरफ़रोशी की तमन्ना अब हमारे दिल में है,
देखना है ज़ोर कितना बाजूएँ कातिल में है।”
it made a place in the heart of every Indian. He also did the work of translation from Hindi to Bengali. His work includes the
Bolshevik program
A Sally of the Mind
Swadeshi Rang
Katherine
Rama Prasad's also translated "Yogik Sadhana" of Rishi Aurobindo. He was associated with the Arya Samaj where he was inspired by a book called "Satyarth Prakash" . Satyarth Prakash was written by Swami Dayanand Saraswati. He was also a founding member of the revolutionary organization called Hindustan Republican Association.
Northern Railway named a station named Pandit Ram Prasad Bismil railway station in his honor.
A commemorative postage stamp was issued by the Government of India on 19 December 1997 to commemorate his 100th birth anniversary.
Kakori Incident
On August 9, 1925, 10 people under the leadership of Ram Prasad Bismil, in a planned action called Kakori, Lucknow, the patriots robbed the collected funds being taken from the Railway Department. He overpowered the gun guard to the train guard. The attacking group broke away with four thousand rupees after breaking the iron vault in the guard compartment. The Kakori case involved Ashfaqullah, Chandrashekhar Azad, Rajendra Lahiri, Sachindra Sanyal, Manmathnath Gupta, Ram Prasad Bismil etc.
Important facts and events of Kakori Incident
The Kakori incident shook the British rule.
The British government announced a reward for helping arrest the revolutionaries of the Kakori incident. Advertisements were placed at prominent places. The revolutionaries were arrested and prosecuted on a large scale.
After this incident, large-scale arrests took place in many parts of the country. Although only 10 men were involved in the Kakori train robbery, more than 40 people were arrested. This grab by the British created quite a stir in the province.
Big people like Jawaharlal Nehru, Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi etc. met the revolutionaries in jail and showed interest in fighting the case.
He wanted his case to be fought by well-known lawyer Govind Vallabh Pant. But due to their high fees, BK Chaudhary of Calcutta eventually fought the case.
Bismil was sentenced to death for the Kakori scandal, on 21 May 1926, after almost a year, the trial started under Sections 121 / A, 120 / B and 369.
In this case, Ramprasad Bismil, Rajendranath Lahiri, Roshan Singh and Ashfaq Ulla Khan were sentenced to be hanged. On April 6, after being tried for almost one and a half years, the sessions court sentenced the hanging.
Shakeendranath Sanyal was sentenced to 14 years by Kalepani and Manmathnath Gupta. Yogeshchandra Chatterjee, Mukandilal ji, Govind Charankar, Rajkumar Singh, Ramkrishna Khatri were sentenced to 10 years each.
On December 19, 1927, Pt. Ramprasad Bismil was hanged in the Gorakhpur jail. He sent a message to his mother in the name of the countrymen and kept loudly chanting 'Bharat Mata' and 'Vande Mataam' as he went towards the gallows.
Lastly he said
मालिक तेरी रजा रहे और तू ही रहे,
बाकी न मैं रहूं, न मेरी आरजू रहे.
जब तक कि तन में जान, रगों में लहू रहे
तेरा हो जिक्र या, तेरी ही जुस्तजू रहे.
On reaching the gallows, Bismil said, 'I want the destruction of the British Empire.'
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