PM Narendra Modi named these revolutionaries in his Durga Puja address; read their unheard stories

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday (October 22) addressed the individuals of West Bengal on the event of Durga Puja. He shared his puja greetings in Bengali and appealed to the individuals to stick to social distancing norms and put on face masks whereas collaborating within the festivities. 

Talking about ladies empowerment, PM Modi stated ladies within the nation have to be given the respect individuals give to Goddess Durga. In his 20-minute tackle. PM Modi stated, “In the 21st century, our imaginative and prescient of Atmanirbhar Bharat, ‘self- reliant India’, will strengthen from the land of Bengal. We need to take Bengal’s tradition, delight, progress to newer heights.”

“We are guaranteeing a speedy growth for the individuals of Bengal via varied schemes. We are doing all the pieces to minimize the issues of the individuals of Bengal and enhance their way of life. We have adopted the imaginative and prescient of Purbaday to develop Eastern India. West Bengal has to play an essential function to make our imaginative and prescient successful,” the PM stated.

At the occasion organised at Eastern Zonal Cultural Centre (EZCC) in Salt Lake, the Prime Minister recalled the contributions of reformers from Bengal like Ram Mohun Roy and Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, religious leaders Ramkrishna Paramhans and Swami Vivekananda, cultural big Rabindranath Tagore, and revolutionaries like Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, Syama Prasad Mookerjee and Khudiram Bose in shaping India’s nationwide id.

He additionally referred to the contributions of Guruchand Thakur and Harichand Thakur, social reformers of the politically influential Matua group, and Panchanan Burma, a social reformer from the north Bengal area, the place the BJP has vastly prolonged its affect. The Prime Minister additionally took the names just a few different revolutionaries given beneath: 

1-Pritilata Waddedar 

Pritilata Waddedar, a lesser-known revolutionary, spent her quick life waging battle in opposition to British rule. Born in Chittagong, now in Bangladesh, she was a promising scholar at Eden College in Dhaka. Wadderdar’s anti-British sentiments took a form as she slowly developed connections with ladies who had been spearheading semi-revolutionary teams. Wadderdar was influenced by one Leela Nag, a scholar at Dhaka University and an affiliate of Subhash Chandra Bose

She got here to Calcutta for increased schooling and enrolled as a scholar of Philosophy at Bethune College underneath the University of Calcutta. In the town, Waddedar was launched to revolutionary chief Surya Sen, and joined his underground floor motion. During the Chittagong Armory Raid of April 1930, 20-year-old Waddedar had joined Surya Sen to raid the British armoury and destroy telegraph and phone traces. The group did not find the armory, however they destroyed the telegraph and phone traces. 

Some members of the group had been arrested, however Waddedar managed to flee with others and regroup over the following few months. In 1932, the group attacked the Pahartali European Club in Chittagong, due to its racist and discriminatory practices, particularly its use of the signboard that learn “Dogs and Indians not allowed”.

A bunch of 10 was educated in using arms underneath Waddedar’s management and had been additionally taught to devour potassium cyanide if the necessity arose. They attacked the membership on September 23, 1932, however Waddedar sustained a bullet damage and he or she was unable to flee. She consumed potassium cyanide to evade arrest and ended her life on the age of solely 21.

2-Bina Das 

Bina Das was simply 21 when opened hearth on Bengal Governor Stanley Jackson within the convocation corridor at Calcutta University in 1932. She was alleged to get her graduate diploma on the similar venue. She needed to serve 9 years of arduous labour for her act. Bina Das was amongst many lesser-known revolutionary ladies who had been on the forefront of the liberty motion in Bengal.

Her mother and father, Beni Madhab Das and Sarala Devi had been deeply concerned with the Brahmo Samaj. In the early 1900s, Das’ mom Sarala Devi ran a ladies’s hostel named Punya Ashram in Calcutta that doubled as cupboard space for bombs and weapons. Several occupants of this hostel had been revolutionaries themselves, belonging to numerous underground teams.

In the convocation, Bina Das had fired 5 pictures at Jackson at shut vary however was tackled and disarmed by Hassan Suhrawardy, the primary Muslim Vice-Chancellor of Calcutta University. After her launch from jail, Das returned to a world she felt was totally different from one which she had been made to go away almost a decade in the past. In the early 1940s, she was imprisoned within the Presidency jail attributable to her work for the liberty motion. She was launched in 1945 however continued her battle in opposition to the British. 

In 1947, she married a fellow revolutionary, Jatish Chandra Bhaumik, a member of the Jugantar group. In 1960, she was awarded Padma Shri for her contributions to social work. She died in destitution and poverty in December 1986. Her decomposed physique was reportedly recovered from a ditch in Rishikesh. It took authorities weeks to determine that she was Bina Das.

3-Matangini Hazra 

Born in a village named Hogla, close to Tamluk, in 1869, Matangini Hazra was the daughter of a poor farmer who couldn’t afford to supply her a proper schooling. She was married at 12 to 60-year-old Trilochan Hazra from Alinan village in Medinipur. By age 18, Matangini Hazra was widowed, with none kids, in accordance with data out there within the West Bengal authorities’s archives.

Following her husband’s dying, Hazra turned so impressed by Mahatma Gandhi that she turned his devoted and earned the identify, “Gandhi buri”. At the age of 61, she was arrested for collaborating within the Civil Disobedience Movement in 1930. Her participation within the Civil Disobedience motion led to a number of quick stints in jail throughout which she got here throughout ladies revolutionaries. She turned an energetic member of the Indian National Congress and began spinning her personal khadi.

During the Quit India Movement in August 1942, her involvement with the liberty wrestle intensified. In September, 1942, the 73-year-old Hazra led a procession of round 6,000 protesters, largely ladies, to take over the Tamluk police station from British authorities. In the skirmishes between protesters and the police, Hazra stepped ahead with the flag interesting police to not shoot on the procession. Her pleas went unheard and he or she obtained three bullets, however she continued her march chanting ‘Vande Mataram’ until she collapsed and died. 

4- Jatindranath Mukherjee ‘Bagha Jatin’

Born in Kaya village in Kushtia district of undivided Bengal in 1879, Jatindranath Mukherjee earned the epithet ‘Bagha Jatin’ in 1906 when he fought a Royal Bengal tiger on their lonesome for 3 hours and killed it utilizing a dagger. During his teenage, he was influenced by Bhagvad Gita and the writings of Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay. As a university scholar, Jatin participated within the reduction work undertaken by Ramakrishna Mission, on the streets of cholera-hit Calcutta, and in addition got here involved with Sister Nivedita, the Irish disciple of Swami Vivekananda.

Sister Nivedita launched Jatin to Vivekananda and this assembly modified his life. Swami Vivekananda instructed Jatin to take up the mission to carry collectively devoted younger males with “iron muscle” and “nerves of steel”, who might plunge into the service of the motherland. 

Later, he met Sri Aurobindo, who thought-about Jatin as his right-hand man. Sri Aurobindo entrusted Jatin with the duty of making a “network of secret society” to coach devoted youth for the revolution in opposition to the British. The secret society got here to be generally known as Jugantar and Bagha Jatin turned its commander-in-chief. 

During the First World War in 1914, a world pro-India committee with the assist of the German authorities was established in Berlin, led by Virendranath Chattopadhyay, who had a reference to the US Ghadar Party and Yugantar in India. Rash Behari’s mutiny try with Ghadar in February 1915 was thwarted, however Jatin was nonetheless ready for the consignment of German arms to reach in India.

The consignment by no means arrived, he alongside together with his 4 aides was chased by a police crew headed by Charles A Teggart. They entered Balasore however their hideout was raided by the police. One of them died within the encounter that adopted, two had been hanged and the fourth was jailed. Bagha Jatin was critically wounded and later succumbed to his accidents on the Balasore Government Hospital.

At the age of 35, he breathed his final, however previous to his dying, he gave an announcement taking full accountability for the actions and requested for honest remedy in the direction of his harmless followers. 

5- Kaji Najrul Islam

PM Modi additionally talked about the identify of eminent Bengali poet, author, musician and anti-colonial revolutionary Kazi Nazrul Islam, who was born on May 25, 1899 within the Bardhaman district of West Bengal. Kazi Nazrul’s poetry and music targeted on themes like non secular tolerance and riot in opposition to oppression.

The nationwide poet of Bangladesh can also be remembered as Bidrohi Kobi or “Rebel Poet”. His impression on Bengali music will be gauged from the truth that almost 4,000 songs written and composed by him make up a style their very own.

Born in a Bengali Muslim household, throughout his youth Kazi Nazrul Islam served as a muezzin at a neighborhood mosque the place his father Kazi Faqeer Ahmed was the imam and caretaker. He developed an curiosity in poetry, drama, and literature whereas working with the agricultural theatrical group Letor Dal.

Nazrul joined the British Indian Army in 1917 and served within the 49th Bengal Regiment earlier than establishing himself as a journalist in Calcutta. He wrote the “Rajbandir Jabanbandi” or “Deposition of a Political Prisoner” in jail. 

At the age of 43, Nazrul began dropping his voice and reminiscence attributable to a mysterious sickness, which was recognized as Pick’s illness. This uncommon neurodegenerative illness triggered a decline in his well being and compelled him to stay in isolation in India, together with at a psychiatric hospital in now Jharkhand’s Ranchi.

In 1972, Nazrul and his household moved to Bangladesh on the authorities’s invitation. He died 4 years afterward August 29, 1976.