chapter-2 political movements

went underground and worked on the patron of the Ghadr
revolutionaries. 189
These revolutionaries continued their propaganda even in the
prisons by organising hunger-strikes and meetings with the other
revolutionaries in the jails. The Lahore Conspiracy Case, attracted
attention of the Indians. Meetings were held in most parts of the country
and processions were organised. It provided the association a mass base.
The revolutionaries also made use of their Court visits as propaganda
platform, ultimately, Bhagat Singh and his two colleagues were hanged
on 23 March 1931. It made Bhagat Singh a legend. It may be noted that
with the arrests and deaths of the revolutionaries the movement received
a serious setback and ultimately its activities were also affected. 190
The Naujwan Bharat Sabha though created at the suggestions of
Dr. Satpal Kitchlew but its very active members were Bhagat Singh,
Chander Shekhar Azad, Kailashpati, Rajguru, Yashpal, Schinder Nath
Synal, Jai Gopal, Hans Raj Vohra, Sukhdev, Batukeshwar Dutt, Jogesh
Chander Chatterjee, Pandit Kishori Lal, Yatin Das, Sodhi Pindi Das,
Gurdit Singh, Ahmeddeen, Durga Bhabi, Hari Kishan and Lala Ram
Saran Das, etc. 191
The Naujwan Bharat Sabha adopted three types of methodology as
a part of strategy to propagate its ideology and programmes. Firstly, by
holding secrete meetings of the top leadership at different places in
Punjab and Uttar Pradesh especially at Meerut, Agra and Kanpur but in
Punjab Lahore and Amritsar were the major centers of their activities. In
these secret meetings the leadership decided the action of their
programmes which were aimed at distribution of literature in order to
189 Satya M. Rai, op. cit., , pp. 78-80.
190 Ibid, pp. 83-85.
191 Ibid.