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Historians say Bhagat Singh never wore a yellow turban, with only four real pictures of him available Bhagat Singh – whose yellow turban picture has gained more traction with the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) prominently displaying it in several offices – dissociated himself from any religion and called himself an atheist April 12, 2022 11:37 am | Updated April 14, 2022 11:59 am IST - New Delhi A popular, much circulated picture of freedom fighter Bhagat Singh in a yellow turban is based on a 1975 painting. In reality, the revolutionary, who was only 23 when he was hanged on March 23, 1931, never wore a yellow turban, say historians. In fact, said historian Chaman Lal, there are only four known photographs of Bhagat Singh — as a child and then as a student at Lahore's National College in a white turban, in police custody in Lahore where he is seen with open hair sitting on a cot, and a fourth with trimmed hair and hat. The yellow turban picture has gained more traction with the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) prominently displaying it in several offices. While party chief Arvind Kerjriwal has been photographed with Dalit icon B.R. Ambedkar and Bhagat Singh in the frame, its new chief minister in Punjab, Bhagwant Mann, has said pictures of the two will be prominently displayed in State government offices. One of the famous picture of Bhagat Singh donning a hat. "There are only four real photographs of Bhagat Singh. Instead of putting one of those at the government offices in Punjab, the admi...

Two days after the AAP’s take his oath—has always idolised Bhagat Singh, expressing that he wants to create a Punjab that the freedom fighter had dreamt of. However, the basanti (yellow) turban Bhagat Singh is seen wearing in the photo is being objected to, primarily for the photo’s lack of authenticity. However, according to Bhagat Singh’s family, what should matter is his vision, not the colour of his turban in the picture. An Expert Explains | Why has Bhagat Singh’s photo been put up at CM Bhagwant Mann’s office? Even before the Punjab poll results were declared, AAP national convener Arvind Kejriwal and the party’s chief ministerial face, Bhagwant Mann, had announced that if the party came to power, the photos of Bhagat Singh and Dr BR Ambedkar would adorn the walls of government offices, moving away from the tradition of putting the chief minister’s photos. Mann has been an ardent follower of Bhagat Singh, who was hanged by the British on March 23, 1931 in Lahore when he was just 23, along with his companions Sukhdev and Rajguru. Mann says that he dreams of creating an egalitarian Punjab that Bhagat Singh had dreamt of and sacrificed his life for. Four original photos of Bhagat Singh (Credit: Prof Chaman Lal) Ever since Mann joined politics with Manpreet Badal’s erstwhile People’s Party of Punjab (PPP) in 2011, the comedian-turned-politician has been sporting a basanti turban and invoking Bhagat Singh in almost every speech, ending them with Inquilab Zindabad—a slogan...

The last week of this month marks two landmarks – the 92nd death anniversary of iconic revolutionary Bhagat Singh and the historic Karachi session of Indian National Congress, 1931. It was on March 23, 1931 that Bhagat Singh and his comrades Rajguru and Sukhdev were hanged at Lahore central jail exactly six days before the Congress session which, inarguably, was one of the most important. Two hours before he was hanged Bhagat Singhs lawyer Prem Nath Mehta met him and asked him in the presence of the head jail warden whether he had any message for the nation. This is what Bhagat Singh (as quoted by Kuldip Nayar in his book The Life & Trial of Bhagat Singh): 'Just the two messages – "Down With Imperialism!" and "Long Live Revolution!".' When Mehta asked him how he felt he replied, 'Happy, as always.' And when he asked if there was anything else he desired he said, 'Yes, I want to be born again in the same country so that I can serve it again.' Then Bhagat Singh asked Mehta to thank Pandit Nehru and Babu Subhash Chandra Bose because both of them had shown great interest in his case. In fact the young revolutionary held both Nehru and Bose in high esteem for their commitment to socialism. In 1928 he had written in journal, Kirti: "The most important young leaders in the present scenario are Bengal's Subhash Chandra Bose and Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. These two leaders are making their presence felt and are participating in the movements of the youth in a big way. Both are wise a...

A man with beliefs and ideals like mine could never think of dying uselessly. We want to get the maximum value for our lives. We want to serve humanity as much as possible. —Bhagat Singh, Letter to Sukhdev against suicide, 1929 Vikramdeep Johal Bhagat Singh was one among several Indian revolutionaries who were martyred in the prime of their youth. He and his comrades Rajguru, Sukhdev, Jatin Das and Chandra Shekhar Azad were in their early or mid-20s when they made the supreme sacrifice. Bhagat Singh’s own idol, Kartar Singh Sarabha, was just 19 when he was executed in 1915. All of them deserve to shine in our collective memory as bright young stars for all eternity. What then has made Bhagat Singh the first among equals? Why is he easily the most celebrated and venerated of the lot? Read also: The Tribune front page of March 25, 1931, announcing the martyrdom of Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev and Rajguru. Intriguing but widely used, this photo — clicked secretly — shows a bearded, handcuffed Bhagat Singh in conversation with an elderly man. At a cursory glance, it appears that he is chatting with an avuncular acquaintance in prison. Actually, the person talking to him is a DSP of CID, an old hand at interrogating revolutionaries. His face has launched a thousand campaigns. His name reverberates at virtually every protest; there is hardly a political party or government that fails to invoke him, especially during the election season. Here is an icon recognised and admired even by th...

In early 1997, an emotionally challenged man, driven by the daily din marking 50 years of India’s Independence, managed to break into the then unguarded martyrs’ museum outside Khatkar Kalan village. Ignoring anything of real monetary value, he made off with the ashes of Bhagat Singh, his socks, wristwatch and a tattered pair of trousers that had belonged to the martyr’s uncle Ajit Singh, also a revolutionary of the freedom movement. ”Stay away from me,” he shouted to a posse of burly Punjab policemen that tracked him down two days later. ”I am Bhagat Singh!” he declared zealously trying to protect his looted ’treasure’. Punjab’s outraged authorities, the Shiromani Akali Dal-BJP dispensation which was ruling the state then, were unforgiving. Balbir Singh, a harmless simpleton, was sentenced to an 18-month jail term. Bhagat Singh, however, would perhaps have approved: his uncle’s trousers, rather than uselessly lying in a glass-topped showcase, were keeping a poor, homeless man warm on a wintry January night. ”Lover, lunatic and poet are made of the same stuff,” the martyr wrote on the second page of a notebook issued to him in Lahore Jail, months before he chose to go to the gallows alongside Shivaram Rajguru and Sukhdev Thapar. Everybody wants a piece of Bhagat Singh. It is 84 long years since that fateful day on March 23, 1931, more than time enough for even the most endearing memories to fade away. But Bhagat Singh remains the most sustaining symbol of the national free...