brief description on Chandra Shekhar azad
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Young Chandra Shekhar was fascinated by and drawn to the great national upsurge of the non-violent, non-cooperation movement of 1920-21 under the leadership of Mahatma Gandhi. When arrested and produced before the magistrate, he gave his name as 'Azad', his father's name as 'Swatantra' and his residence as 'prison'. The provoked magistrate sentenced him to fifteen lashes of flogging. The title of Azad stuck thereafter.
After withdrawal of the non-cooperation movement, Azad was attracted towards revolutionary activities. He joined the Hindustan Socialist Republican Army (HSRA) and was involved in the Kakori Conspiracy (1926), the attempt to blow up the Viceroy's train (1926), the Assembly bomb incident, the Delhi Conspiracy, the shooting of Saunders at Lahore (1928) and the Second Lahore conspiracy.
Azad was on the wanted list of the police. On 27February 1931, in the Alfred Park, Allahabad, when an associate betrayed him, well-armed police circled Azad. For quite sometime he held them at bay, single-handedly with a small pistol and few cartridges. Left with only one bullet, he fired it at his own temple and lived up to his resolve that he would never be arrested and dragged to gallows to be hanged. He used to fondly recite a Hindustani couplet, his only poetic composition:
'Dushman ki goliyon ka hum samna karenge,
Azad hee rahein hain, azad hee rahenge'
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His real name was Chandra Shekhar Sitaram Tiwari. He
was born on 23rd July, 1906 in Bhavra village of Alirajpur
district in Madhya Pradesh. He received preliminary
education in Kashi. He was a nationalist since the
childhood. Chandra Shekhar participated in the
Non-cooperation movement. When he was arrested for
the first time he was so young that the police did not
have 'handcuffs' of his size. In the court when he was
asked his name, he said 'Azad'. He told that his father's
name was 'freedom' and residence was 'prison'. After
that he became popular as 'Azad'.
He too participated in the train robbery at Kakori station. Forty revolutionaries were
arrested but Azad managed to escape. The British government announced a bounty
to catch him. Azad had taken a vow to not to be caught alive by the British authority.
On 27th February, 1931 C.E. Azad was surrounded by the British police in Alfred Park
of Allahabad. Azad put up a brave fight single handedly and then he shot himself. It is
said that the police was so scared of Azad that they shot two-three bullets into his
body to confirm his death before they stepped closer to him.