Question

Bhagat Singh,the great revolutionary and martyr was only 23 when in 1931 he was hanged in the

Lahore jail for having thrown a bomb in the Legislative Assembly Hall in Delhi on April

8,1929.This was the effort of a life devoted to the great task of first making India free from the

British rule and then building India into a strong nation.Bhagat Singh dreamt of an India where

there would be respect for every religion and where all Indians would get the basic necessities of

life.

Bhagat Singh was born in 1907 in a well-to-do Sikh family of Punjab full of love for the country.As

a child,his ideal was his uncle Ajit Singh,who was a great freedom fighter.Two incidents played a

major role in shaping Bhagat Singh’s life.In Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar,a peaceful gathering of

unarmed people was huge firing at the orders of General Dyer.Bhagat Singh ran away from school

to visit the site.He was greatly moved by the bullet marks in the walls of the Jallianwala Bagh.He

brought back with him some blood-soaked mud in a little bottle to remind him of British cruelty.

The second incident was Lala Lajpat Rai’s death in 1928.Lala Lajpat Rai was also Bhagat Singh’s

ideal.He was leading a protest march when he was beaten up with lathis,and he died soon

after.Bhagat Singh felt highly agitated and he wanted to raise a strong protest.Bhagat Singh

thought of throwing a bomb in the Assembly Hall as a means of protest.The idea of getting somany English people getting killed delighted his friend Chandra Shekhar Azad.But Bhagat Singh

said he did not want to kill anybody;he only wanted to make the British rulers hear.Bhagat Singh

and his friends did not try to run away after throwing the bomb.They were arrested and put to

trial,he said,”The bomb was necessary to awaken England from her dreams.Our sole purpose was

to make the deaf hear and give a timely warning….” write a summary in 50 word​

Answer 1

Precis writing is the activity of compressing the passage and giving all the essential points in own language to understand the gist of the passage.

• The given passage is about the great revolutionary Bhagat Singh.
• The summary of the passage can be written as -

In 1907, Bhagat Singh was born. His ideal was freedom warrior Ajit Singh. Two events had a significant impact on his mind. He was saddened by Lala Lajpat Rai's passing and the Jallianwala Bagh massacre. Singh was furious and planned to launch a bomb into the Assembly Hall to make a loud protest. He was detained and tried. Great revolutionary Bhagat Singh was barely 23 years old when he was hung. He had visions of a country where all religions would be respected and where everyone would have access to life's needs.

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