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Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt threw bombs in the Central Legislative Assembly at Delhi on:
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Answer: Option A — 8 April 1929
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On this day, Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt threw two low-intensity bombs from the visitors' gallery into the Central Legislative Assembly (now the old Parliament House, Samvidhan Sadan) in Delhi, while it was in session.
The bombs were deliberately thrown at empty benches and were designed not to kill anyone; a few members were slightly injured. The two revolutionaries also threw leaflets and shouted slogans such as "Inquilab Zindabad" ("Long live the revolution") and "Down with imperialism". The leaflets declared that "it takes a loud voice to make the deaf hear", a phrase borrowed from the French anarchist Auguste Vaillant.
The action was a protest against two repressive measures being brought by the government:
- The Public Safety Bill, which would allow the government to deport suspected revolutionaries without trial.
- The Trade Disputes Bill, which would restrict the right of workers to strike.
Bhagat Singh and Dutt did not try to escape. They courted arrest so that they could use their trial to spread their revolutionary message. Both were sentenced to transportation for life in the Assembly Bomb Case.
Later, Bhagat Singh was also tried, along with Sukhdev and Rajguru, in the Lahore Conspiracy Case for the killing of the British police officer J.P. Saunders in December 1928. In jail, they went on a long hunger strike demanding better treatment for political prisoners; their comrade Jatin Das died after a 63-day hunger strike in 1929. Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev and Rajguru were hanged at Lahore Central Jail on 23 March 1931, a day earlier than scheduled. Their bodies were secretly cremated at Hussainiwala, on the banks of the Sutlej, where a national martyrs' memorial now stands.
Batukeshwar Dutt was sent to the Cellular Jail in the Andaman Islands. He survived and died in 1965.
Why not the other options?
- ✗23 March 1931 is the date of the execution of Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev and Rajguru.
17 December 1928 is the date J.P. Saunders was shot in Lahore.
9 August 1925 is the date of the Kakori train action.
Quick tip
Remember: Assembly bomb = 8 April 1929 (Bhagat Singh and B.K. Dutt, "to make the deaf hear"); Saunders killed 17 December 1928; Kakori = 9 August 1925; execution = 23 March 1931.
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This topic covers the revolutionary side of the freedom struggle in India and abroad: groups such as the Anushilan Samiti, the Ghadar Party and the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association, revolutionaries such as Bhagat Singh, Chandrashekhar Azad, Ram Prasad Bismil, Khudiram Bose and Surya Sen, and Subhas Chandra Bose's Indian National Army. Questions often ask about an incident and the people involved, such as the Kakori train action (1925), the Lahore Conspiracy Case, the Chittagong armoury raid (1930) and the bombing of the Central Legislative Assembly (1929). Also learn the founders and headquarters of revolutionary groups formed abroad, such as the Ghadar Party in San Francisco. Practise the revolutionaries questions below, written in the style of the general awareness sections of exams such as SSC, banking, railways, CUET GAT, MAH CET and CLAT. Each question comes with a detailed explanation that adds related facts, so every question helps you revise more than one point.