Thursday 25 March 2021

DURGA DEVI( bhabhi) she wasvan associate of Bhagat singh sukhdev and Rajguru of Hindusthan socialist Republican association. she played very important part after the shooting down of police officer Saunders by Bhagat singh and his associates. She helped the trio in escaping by train towards bengal. later she made many attempts to get the trio released by meeting Gandhi other leaders and even British administration at high level, When the trio were sentenced to death, she anttw revolutionaries prithvi singh azad and sukhdev raj planned to assassinate William Hailey governor of Punjab in Bombay. But due to very high security it was dropped. on 0 8 oct 1930 at lamjngton road police station they fired at a British couple from a car injuring sergent Taylor on hand and his wife on leg. She also fired four shots and slipped away. Later bhagat singh trio were executed and the revolutionaries were greatly got disorganized. And due to constant persecution she decided to surrender. she was imprisoned for six months and later was released with externment from delhi and Punjab for three years. she later moved to ghaziabad and lived away from public gaze. She refused to contest in elections and spent life away from public gaze . She passed away in old age after 81 years of public life.

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