SARDAR OF SARDARS : UDHAM SINGH

Sardar Udham Singh was born on 26.11.1899 at sunam, Sangrur District of Punjab state.He was orphaned at a very early age and got shelter in the Sikh orphanage,Putlighar ,Amritsar. He received education and crafts training there. He set up a painters shop with the signboard of Ram Mohammad Singh Azad. The Massacre at Jallianwala Bagh, Amritsar.on the day of Baisakhi on 13 th April .1919 by General Dyer changed the course of Sardar Udham Singh life. He resolved to wreck vengeance on the perpetrators of this heinous crime. General Dyer ,Sir Michael O'Dwyer the Lieutenant Governor,Punjab and Lord Zetland Secretary of state of India. Sardar Udham Singh moved from one country to another country to shoot the murderers of his countrymen. He was arrested in 1928 and imprisoned for four years. He was released in 1932. He reached London through Germany where he joined a training course to hoodwink his activities to trace General Dyer, Sir Michael O'Dwyer and Lord Zetland .it took him twenty years to meet Sir Michael O'Dwyer and Lord zetland. The third culprit General Dyer had already expired. After 21 years ,it was on the 13 th march ,1940 when Sir Michael O'Dwyer and Lord Zetland had come to attend a meeting in the Caxton Hall in London, that Sardar Udham Singh entered there with his revolver. Sardar Udham Singh gunned Sir Michael O'Dwyer down with his revolver. There was great panic and pandemonium in the Hall. Sardar Udham Singh stood firm. He was chained on April 2, 1940, when produced before the Magistrate ,he said "I did the deed because Sir Michael O'Dwyer wanted to crush all our aspirations for freedom. I had been after him for full 21 years. I am happy that I have fulfilled my job. I am not afraid of death ".He was sentenced to death. He kissed the gallows smilingly  and was hanged on the 31 st July ,1940,in the Pantone Villa Jail London. India is proud of the sacrifices done by this Great Martyr, Sardar Udham Singh.

Aye mere vatan ke logon
tum khoob laga lo naara
ye shubh din hai ham sab ka
lahara lo Tiranga pyara
par mat bhoolo seema par
veeron ne hai pran ganvaaye
kuch yaad unhein bhi kar lo
jo laut ke ghar na aaye
aye mere vatan ke logon
jara aankh mein bhar lo pani
jo shaheed hue hain unki
jara yaad karo qurbani
jab ghayal hua himalay
khatre mein padi azadi
jab tak thi saans lade vo
phir apni laash bichha di
sangeen pe dhar kar maatha
so gaye amar balidani
jo shaheed..
jab desh mein thi diwali
vo khel rahe tha holi
jab ham baithe the gharon mein
vo jhel rahe tha goli
dhanya javan vo aapane
thi dhanya vo unaki javani
jo shaheed ..
koi sikh koi jaat maratha
koi gorkha koi madarasi
sarahad pe marane wala
har veer tha Bharatvasi
jo khoon gira parvat par
vo khoon tha Hindustani
jo shaheed..
thi khoon se lath-path kaya