ByPress Belief of India, Lahore
Dec 31, 2024 11:54 PM IST
The gallery homes historic paperwork, together with photos, letters, newspapers, particulars of the trial and different memorial articles associated to Bhagat Singh’s life and freedom battle
Pakistan’s Punjab authorities has opened to vacationers the Bhagat Singh Gallery on the historic Poonch Home right here, the place the liberty fighter’s trial was performed some 93 years in the past.
The Bhagat Singh Gallery on the Poonch Home in Pakistan’s Lahore. (PTI Picture)
Punjab chief secretary Zahid Akhtar Zaman inaugurated the gallery on Monday. “Tourists will have access to the gallery under an agreement between the departments of industry, commerce and tourism of the Punjab government,” Zaman mentioned, including that the historic constructing of Poonch Home has been restored to its authentic type.
“The gallery showcases Bhagat Singh’s struggle for independence,” he mentioned.
Singh, 23, was hanged by British rulers in Lahore on March 23, 1931, after being tried beneath prices for hatching a conspiracy in opposition to the colonial authorities.
The file additionally comprises a petition of his father, Sardar Kishan Singh, in opposition to the dying sentence of his son and the certificates/execution of his dying in Lahore district jail by the superintendent of jail dated March 23, 1931.
The case information comprise paperwork exhibiting how the British India police and businesses had busted the group of Singh comprising round 24 to 25 members from totally different components of India and established their hyperlinks to the Hindustan Socialist Republican Military and the Naujawan Bharat Sabha.
Bhagat Singh Memorial Basis chairman Imtiaz Rasheed Qureshi mentioned on Tuesday that for the reason that Punjab authorities has opened the Baghat Singh Gallery, it also needs to rename Shadman Chowk (the place he was hanged) after him. “We will continue pressing the government for this,” he added.