Birth anniversary of Ashfaqulla Khan

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Last Updated22/10/2021

Ashfaqulla Khan was an Indian independence activist in the Indian independence movement who was born on 22 october 1900.
On 9 August 1925, Khan and other revolutionaries robbed the train from Kakori to Lucknow for money needed to purchase weaponry to fight for independence.
He was put to death by hanging on 19 December 1927 at Faizabad Jail after the death sentence awarded to him in the case of Kakori dacoity.

It was a revolutionary organisation adhering Marxism and Socialism, previously it was known as the Hindustan Republican Army, founded by Ram Prasad Bismil, Sachindra Nath Bakshi, Sachindranath Sanyal and Jogesh Chandra Chatterjee.
The Hindustan Republican Association (HRA), whose written constitution and published manifesto titled The Revolutionary were produced as evidence in the Kakori conspiracy case of 1925.
The Non-cooperation movement of 1920 led to large scale mobilisation of Indian population against the British rule.
Though intended as a Nonviolent resistance movement, it soon turned violent.
After the Chauri Chaura incident, Mahatma Gandhi suspended the movement to prevent the escalation of violence.
This disillusioned a section of nationalists who felt the suspension was premature and unwarranted.
The political vacuum created by the suspension led to the formation of revolutionary movements by the more radical amongst those who sought to overthrow British rule.

With the consent of Lala Har Dayal, Bismil went to Allahabad where he drafted the constitution of the party in 1923 with the help of Sachindra Nath Sanyal and another revolutionary of Bengal, Dr. Jadugopal Mukherjee.
The basic name and aims of the organisation were typed on a Yellow Paper and later on a subsequent Constitutional Committee Meeting was conducted on 3 October 1924 at Kanpur in the United Provinces under the chairmanship of Sanyal."