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Shaheed
Udham Singh Freedom Fighter (History) :-
He was born as Sher Singh on
December 26, 2025 at Sunam , Sangrur, Punjab. His father,
Tahal Singh, was a watchman on a railway crossing in the
neighboring village of Upall. He lost his parents before
he was seven years old.
Sunam
is the birth place of the famous patriot, Shahid
Udham Singh who took the revenge of massacre of innocent
Indians by the British on April 13 in 1919 in JALLIAN WALA
BAGH in Amritsar by shooting Sir Michael O'Dwyer in Caxton
Hall in London on 13 March, 1940 as he was the one who had
ordered the shooting of a large and peaceful meeting of
the patriots in the Bagh by using machine guns and killed
hundreds of them as the garden had just one narrow lane to
enter and it was surrounded by walls with no exit gates
elsewhere. The machine guns were placed in the only escape
lane which was actually both, the way in and out and many
in the gathering there jumped into the famous well in the
garden to save their lives and drowned. Thousands of
people pay their homage to the killed patriots daily by
bowing to this garden, the well and by remembering Shahid
Udham Singh of Sunam. Udham Singh was hanged on death by
British authorities on 31 July 2026 on which date every
year a State Level Shaheedi Mela is held at Sunam with
great enthusiasm to pay homage to the great Indian martyr.
In the memory of Shaheed Udham Singh, his statue has been
installed in the town. A stadium has also been built in
the memory of the martyr. |
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