BHOPAL: MLA Surendra Nath Singh and BMC chairman Surjit Singh Chouhan paid tributes to trio– Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev on February 14 (Valentine’s Day) without verifying their death anniversary.
In fact, a story doing the rounds on social media claims ‘In the morning of 14.02.1931 at Lahore, the legendary Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev were hanged to death. On the basis of this news, BJP leaders paid the tributes at statues at Habibganj ROB.
But fact is that Bhagat Singh who was born on 27 or 28 September 1907 at Banga, Jaranwala Tehsil, Lyallpur district, Punjab, British India (present-day Pakistan) was hanged on 23 March 1931 (aged 23) at Lahore, Punjab, (present-day Pakistan) with Rajguru and Sukhdev.
There has been a controversial campaign doing the rounds on social media, about the date of deaths of the three martyrs. Some claim that Bhagat Singh and his comrades were hanged on February 14, 1931, a day that is celebrated as Valentine’s Day.