Tribute paid to the immortal martyrs.
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Today is Martyr’s Day. On this day, seven freedom fighters from Bihar sacrificed their lives for the country. Not just Bihar, but the entire country is remembering the sacrifices made by the seven immortal martyrs like Umakant Prasad Singh, Ramanand Singh, Satish Prasad Jha, Jagatpati Kumar, Devipad Chaudhary, Rajendra Singh and Ram Govind Singh on 11 August 1942. On this occasion, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar paid homage to the immortal martyr freedom fighters.
To pay tribute to the immortal martyrs, a state function was organized at Shaheed Smarak Parisar, Patna. In the state function, Governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar and Chief Minister Nitish Kumar paid floral tributes to the martyrs by garlanding their statues. Speaker of Bihar Legislative Assembly Nand Kishore Yadav, Deputy Chief Minister Samrat Chaudhary and other dignitaries went to Shaheed Park in the Secretariat premises and offered floral wreaths in front of Amar Jyoti and paid tribute to all the immortal martyrs of the freedom struggle. On this occasion, artists of the Information and Public Relations Department presented Bihar songs and patriotic songs.
On this occasion, Speaker of Bihar Legislative Assembly Nand Kishore Yadav, Deputy Chief Minister Samrat Chaudhary, Water Resources and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Vijay Kumar Chaudhary, Information and Public Relations Minister Maheshwar Hazari, Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe Welfare Minister Janak Ram, MP Sanjay Kumar Jha, Deputy Speaker of the Legislative Assembly Narendra Narayan Yadav, Legislative Councilor Sanjay Kumar Singh alias Gandhiji, Legislative Councilor Kumud Verma, Legislative Councilor Ravindra Kumar Singh along with other public representatives, family members of the immortal martyrs and dignitaries paid their heartfelt homage by garlanding the statue of the immortal martyrs.
Seven Revolutionary students were martyred
82 years ago on this day, revolutionary students had come out to hoist the flag on the Secretariat of Patna. On the orders of the then District Magistrate WG Arthur, the police had fired several bullets. About 13 to 14 rounds of bullets were fired. Seven revolutionary students Umakant Prasad Singh, Ramanand Singh, Satish Prasad Jha, Jagpati Kumar, Devipad Chaudhary, Rajendra Singh and Ram Govind Singh moved forward with the flag one by one and were martyred by the bullets of the British. It is said that when 14-year-old Devipad Chaudhary was moving towards the Secretariat with his six companions, the police tried to stop him. But, Devipad was moving forward holding the tricolor when the police shot him. Seeing Devipad falling, Ramgovind Singh moved forward and took the tricolor in his hand. But, the police shot him too. Ramanand Sinha held the tricolor and did not let it fall. The police also shot Ramanand. Seeing Ramanand falling, Saran Rajendra Singh held the tricolor. Rajendra Singh moved forward but he too was shot. Seeing the tricolour falling from Rajendra Singh’s hands, Jagpati Kumar took hold of it. The British shot Jagpati Kumar in the hand, the second bullet hit his chest and the third bullet hit his thigh, but still the tricolour did not bow down. After this, Satish Prasad Jha was also shot while trying to hoist it. Umakant Singh handed over the flag and started running ahead. The cruel police personnel were firing bullets. Umakant was also shot but he succeeded in hoisting the tricolour on the dome of the secretariat. Independence
