Friday, January 28, 2022

India celebrates 157th birth anniversary of Lala Lajpat Rai


Today India is celebrating the 157th birth anniversary of Lala Lajpat Rai, a leading light of Indian Independence Movement. 

One of the famous triumvirate called “Lal-Bal-Pal”, Lala Lajpat Rai was born on January 28, 1856 in Ludhiana district in Punjab. 

Lala Lajpat Rai was elected President of the Indian National Congress in its Calcutta Session In 1920. In 1921, he founded Servants of the People Society. 

On 17 November 1928 Lala Lajpat Rai succumbed to the injuries received by him during a protest in Lahore against the Simon Commission which had arrived in India in 1928 to study constitutional reform in the country.

Unhappy India is one of the works of Lala Lajpat Rai. 


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