Surjeet will be remembered for countering BJP at the height of its saffron surge
On March 23, 1932, the Governor of Punjab was scheduled to visit Hoshiarpur in Punjab. It was also the first anniversary of the martyrdom of Bhagat Singh. The District Congress Committee had decided to replace the Union Jack with the Tricolour at the district courts on the same day. In anticipation, the district administration announced that protestors would be shot. Under duress, the Hoshiarpur Congress Committee backtracked. A boy celebrating his 16th birthday that day had other ideas. He picked up a tricolour mounted on a small stick, dismissed the Congress office secretary’s warning and reached the district court, where a complacent security personnel had become careless. With a single-mindedness - that was to later become his hall mark - a young Harkishan Singh Surjeet climbed the court stairs, brought down the Union Jack and hoisted the tricolour. Though two shots were aimed & fired at him, both missed their mark.
After 60 highly eventful political years, the boy matured into becoming General Secretary of the CPM in 1992, and held that post for the next 13 years, a period marked by the emergence of coalition politics. From then to now, the inveterate agitator for working class rights has struggled: from the unions to a current battle for life at the Metro Hospital in Noida.
On March 23, 1932, the Governor of Punjab was scheduled to visit Hoshiarpur in Punjab. It was also the first anniversary of the martyrdom of Bhagat Singh. The District Congress Committee had decided to replace the Union Jack with the Tricolour at the district courts on the same day. In anticipation, the district administration announced that protestors would be shot. Under duress, the Hoshiarpur Congress Committee backtracked. A boy celebrating his 16th birthday that day had other ideas. He picked up a tricolour mounted on a small stick, dismissed the Congress office secretary’s warning and reached the district court, where a complacent security personnel had become careless. With a single-mindedness - that was to later become his hall mark - a young Harkishan Singh Surjeet climbed the court stairs, brought down the Union Jack and hoisted the tricolour. Though two shots were aimed & fired at him, both missed their mark.
After 60 highly eventful political years, the boy matured into becoming General Secretary of the CPM in 1992, and held that post for the next 13 years, a period marked by the emergence of coalition politics. From then to now, the inveterate agitator for working class rights has struggled: from the unions to a current battle for life at the Metro Hospital in Noida.
Source : IIPM Editorial, 2012.
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