September 13: Revolutionary Jitendranath Das 'Sacrifice Day', learn about the unknown sacrifice for his freedom.

New Delhi, September 13, 2019, Friday

India has a major contribution to the freedom of the country, as well as to the famous revolutionaries and fighters, as well as to some unknown heroic sacrifices. One such unknown revolutionary is Jitendranath Das. He shook the British government not once and twice. On September 13, 1929, this heroic supremacy became immortal and since then September 13 is also celebrated as a sacrifice day.

He was born on 27 October 1904 in a modest Bengali family in Kolkata. His father's name was Bankim Bihari Das and his mother's name was Suhasini Devi. Jitendranath Das was only 9 years old when his mother died. He is also known as Jatin Das. He was a great Indian and freedom fighter. He was in hunger strike for 63 days in Lahore jail. When he died, an earthquake was felt across India. Jatin Das was the only person who was martyred before his independence.

No definition of Jatin Das's country love can be given. He joined the Bengal Revolutionary Committee, a revolutionary organization in Bengal for the country's independence. Jitendranath Das also participated in Gandhiji's non-cooperation movement in 1921. In November 1925, Jatin Das, who was studying for a BA at Vidyasagar College in Kolkata, was arrested for doing political activities. After his arrest, he was imprisoned in the Miman Singh Central Jail.

Here he witnessed the mistreatment of political prisoners and launched a hunger strike against him. After 20 days, the jail superintendent bowed down and apologized when he ended his fast. After the incident, the revolutionaries who fought for freedom in different places in the country approached them and initially they refused to join anyone. But then when Sardar Bhagat Singh persuaded him, he agreed to make bombs for his organization and take part in the revolutionary movement.

On 14 June 1929 he was again arrested for revolutionary activities. He was arrested and lodged in a Lahore jail under the Lahore conspiracy case. Jatin Das started a hunger strike in Lahore jail along with other revolutionary fighters. He started hunger strike demanding equality for Indian prisoners and like-minded prisoners. The situation there was tragic for the Indian prisoners. Uniform days provided by the prison administration were not washed for days, but their cooking was done wherever the animals, mice, were moving. No content found for reading. When the English prisoners got all the facilities. He opposed this discrimination.

The hunger strike of Jatin Das and his associates, which started in jail, became an important step in protest against illegal detainees. This fast became memorable. The hunger strike began on 13 July 1929 and lasted 63 days. During these days prison officials made several brutal attempts to force Jatin and to break the hunger strike of his freedom fighters. They were beaten to death. If every attempt by the authorities to break the hunger strike failed, he gave them nothing but drinking water. Jatin Das had been on hunger strike for 63 days and his compulsive behavior from above made his condition worse.

However, the efforts of the English authorities did not stop there and they devised a conspiracy, called the mad doctor and put such a drug in Jatin Das's veins and he was gradually pushed to death. The British conspiracy was successful and because of this, Jatin Das became immortal on 13 September 1929. However, his hunger strike remained unmatched until death.

His dead body was brought from Lahore to Kolkata by rail. Thousands of people paid their tribute here and a large crowd was hoisting up at the station. At his funeral, a crowd of two miles long was seen in Kolkata. People reached the crematorium with their earthly bodies and Jatin Das was immortal, invading the slums of Inquilab Zindabad. Today on the 116th anniversary of Jatin Das, find out some strange things about his life.

1. At the age of 16, Jitendra passed the matriculation exam in 1920. It was only when he was completing his further studies that Mahatma Gandhi started a non-cooperation movement. Jitendra joined the movement and was arrested at this time in a foreign textile shop and was sentenced to six months.

2. In the year 1928, in Kolkata Congress, Jitendra was Netaji Bose's assistant in the 'Congress Seva Dal'. Here he met Bhagat Singh and at the behest of Bhagat Singh he went to Agra to make a bomb. The bombs that Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt threw at the Central Assembly on April 8, 1929 were made by Jitendra. He was subsequently arrested on June 14, 1929.

3. India's first Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru also mentioned about this non-violent martyr of Jitendra in his autobiography.

4. In the 50th year of Jitendra's martyrdom, the post department of the Government of India issued a postal ticket in memory of his martyr.