My Role Model Essay

"They may kill me, but they cannot kill my ideas. They can crush my body, but they are not able to crush my spirit". The above statement is the quote of great freedom fighter Bhagat Singh. A person who inspires others through his ideas and thoughts is regarded as a role model. A role model is a person whose life becomes an example for others and inspires people with their ideas, action, and thoughts. Everyone has a role model who inspires them when they need motivation/encouragement. Role models can be your family members, friends, famous personalities, or anyone else.

People choose their role models after getting impressed by how they lived their lives. After getting impressed by the role models, people try to absorb their characters, ideas, and actions. The person who impresses me most by the way he lived his life and whom I admire most is the great freedom fighter, Bhagat Singh. Shahid-e-Ajam Bhagat Singh is my role model, and he is the person who impressed me so much that I wish to follow his ideas and thoughts. For a boy who devoted his life to the Nation, and kept the nation ahead of his personal life, Bhagat Singh has indeed set an example for the upcoming generations. Hence Bhagat Singh is my ideal.

Early Life of Bhagat Singh

Bhagat Singh was born on March 27, 1907, in Banga village, which comes under the Lyallpur District of Punjab Province of British India. Bhagat Singh was one of the most charismatic revolutionaries of India. Bhagat Singh sacrificed his life against the British for the Independence of India. At a very young age, he started participating in revolutionary activities for India's independence throughout the country. Bhagat Singh was inspired by his uncle Ajit Singh who also took part in the independence movement against the British.

When he was young, he helped his uncle to carry out secret activities for the Nation's independence. But as Bhagat was growing up, his activities became more intense. He started participating in the movements of other great leaders and tried to convince others to stand against British power. At a very young age, he started thinking about his country and its independence. For the Nation's independence, it started forming secret societies in which Bhagat Singh worked with other revolutionary leaders, notably Chandrashekhar Azad, Rajguru, Sukhdev, and many more. The event inspired many freedom fighters to fight for the Nation's independence.

Bhagat Singh's Life and How He Inspired Others

He was born on September 27, 1907, in Banga village of Punjab province, in British India and Pakistan. Bhagat Singh's father's name was Kishan Singh Sandhu, and his mother's name was Vidyavati; he is the second child of his parents, besides his three brothers and three sisters. Bhagat Singh's father and his uncle Ajit Singh were active in politics and also participated in the agitation against the Canal Colonization Bill of 1907, and later they both participated in Ghadar Movement of 1914-1915. At the start of his learning, Bhagat Singh went to the village school of Banga for a few years, and later, he was enrolled in the Dayanand Anglo-Vedic School located in Lahore. After completing his schooling, he enrolled in the National College of Lahore, which Lala Lajpat Rai founded in 1921 in support of Mahatma Gandhi's non-cooperation movement, which requested Indian students to boycott British schools and colleges and promote swadeshi education. But his growing influence on youth alarmed Police, and the Police arrested him.

In May 1927, on the charge that he was involved in a Lahore bombing in October 1926. But after a protest from youths, Bhagat Singh was released. He was very well educated. Bhagat wrote articles in newspapers and edited Urdu and Punjabi newspapers published from Amritsar. He also created low-price pamphlets of his Naujawan Bharat Sabha, which criticized the British, and also wrote in the same famous journal of that time, such as the journal of Kirti Kisan Party, Veer Arjun newspaper which published from Delhi.

His activities for the Nation from a young age inspired me the most. He set an example of how youth can participate in national development without sacrificing their studies or other work. But while writing, he used pseudonyms such as Balwan, Vidhrohi, and Ranjit.

Activities Which Got National Attention

1. John Saunders Assassination

Under the GOI Act 1919, there was a provision for the statuary grant Commission, which looked into what constitutional power further provided to India. And for this British government appointed the Indian statutory Commission, which is famously known as Simon Commission because Sir John Simon heads it and it has other 6 members. But when Simon Commission arrived in India around 1928, it was boycotted by various parties, associations, and individuals. And one of the boycott movements was led by Lala Lajpat Rai, but during the peace movement, when the crowd became too much, Police tried to disperse the crowd and take the shape of violence and avoid this police lathi-charge the crowd. And during lathi-charge, Lala Lajpat Rai got injured on the head. James A Scott, who was the Superintendent of Lahore at that time, issued an order of lathi-charge.

Later Lala Lajpat Rai's health became severe due to their lathi-charge, and he died after some time due to a heart attack. His death caught Nation's wide attention, especially among the youth, because he was a leading figure in India's independence movement. He is also the leader of the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association ( HSRA), a revolutionary organization. Amongst the members of HSRA, Bhagat Singh is a prominent one, Lala Lajpat Rai's death affected him badly, and he decided to take revenge for Lala's death.

Bhagat Singh, Rajguru, Sukhdev, and Chandrashekhar Azad, plan to kill James Scott but mistakenly kill John Saunders, Assistant Superintendent of Police, in 1928. This event got nationwide attention, and many youths started to take revolutionary activities to free India. Even by doing the wrong thing, he motivated the youth to take part in India's independence movement, but at the same time, he also tried to convince the youth that they do not take the revolutionary path. They must follow Gandhi's nonviolence.

2. Delhi Assembly Bombing

Due to the Kakori conspiracy, leaders of HSRA were executed, especially Ram Prasad Bismil, and HSRA lost its base. To regenerate the HSRA base and try to develop massive publicity towards HSRA. Bhagat Singh planned to throw a bomb over the Delhi assembly in response to the Public safety act and Trade dispute act which was rejected by the assembly but passed by Viceroy using his special powers. Bhagat Singh, along with Batukeshwar Dutt, threw bombs over the assembly, but bombs are designed so that they don't harm anyone or kill. And using smoke produced by the bomb, they could escape from the assembly, but they stayed and shouted their slogan Inquilab zindabad.

This event caught worldwide attention even the newspaper in Britain tried to cover this issue thoroughly. After that, they were both arrested and sent to central jail. When he was in jail, his way of leaving gave examples to others that how the youth of the NationNation should look like. Bhagat Singh, along with his associates, organized a hunger strike against the administration's food. Later on March 24, 1931, Bhagat Singh, Rajguru, and Sukhdev were hanged in the Lahore conspiracy case.

Ideas of Bhagat Singh Which Inspired Others

For Bhagat Singh, nothing is more important than the Nation, and he sacrifices his life at a very young age for the independence of India. He wants that India should become paramount power, India should lead other nations on the path of progress, and become free from colonialism.

When Gandhi Ji disbanded his non-cooperation movement, there were Hindu-Muslim riots. For Bhagat Singh, India is not a country of only Hindus, but for him, India is the Nation that teaches the world how peaceful diversity looks. And to maintain peace, he was a firm supporter of Hindu-Muslim unity. For him, both communities are equal, and it was the responsibility of the members of both groups to take Nation towards development.

Another idea that influences others is that he supports Communism, a political ideology under which common ownership of means of production. But being India is a Mixed economy, Communism does not get much attention.

Also, he wrote an essay, "why I am an atheist," in which he mentioned that he does not believe in the existence of God.

The qualities or Ideas of Bhagat Singh I endorsed

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