• Arrested in 1929 for throwing a bomb in the Central Legislative Assembly; later rearrested for the Lahore Conspiracy Case (murder of J.P. Saunders).
• Jinnah opposed a 1929 Bill allowing trials in absentia, delivering a strong speech in the Central Assembly.

• Hanged on March 23, 1931, along with Sukhdev and Rajguru, in Lahore for his revolutionary activities.
• Nehru and Subhash Chandra Bose visited Bhagat Singh in prison.

• Bhagat Singh was fluent in Urdu, Punjabi, Hindi, and English, and familiar with Sanskrit.
• His jail notebook referenced thinkers like Karl Marx, Thomas Jefferson, Mark Twain, and others, reflecting his intellectual diversity.
• At 17, he wrote Vishwa Prem (Universal Love), advocating for universal brotherhood and equality.
• He urged the oppressed classes to rebel against the social order and spoke about the philosophy of revolution in his writings, such as What is Revolution? (1929).
• In his series What is Anarchism? he described organized religion and the state as forms of mental and physical slavery.
• He wrote about the power of love in a 1929 letter to Sukhdev, emphasizing its role in personal and political strength.

PYQ:

[2020] Since the decade of the 1920s, the national movement acquired various ideological strands and thereby expanded its social base. Discuss.