Global Hindu Heritage Foundation started Bala Samskar Kendras to inspire young minds to be proud of their culture and also learn about the national heroes who sacrificed their lives for Bharat. Ram Prasad Bismil played an important role in the freedom struggle along with other revolutionaries such as Bhagat Singh and Chandrasekhar Azad.
Ram Prasad Bismil was born to a Municipality employee Muralidhar and his wife. He learnt Hindi at home and Urdu from a Moulvi. In spite of his father’s objections, he was admitted to an English medium school.
He also joined the Arya Samaj founded by Dayananda Saraswati. This had a profound influence on him.
When he was 18 years old, Bhai Parmanand, a prominent Hindu Mahasabha leader was sentenced to death. This angered him and stirred patriotic feelings in him.
He was also a prolific writer from a very young age. On reading Parmanand’s death sentence, he composed a Hindi poem titled ‘Mera Janm’ (My Birth).
Bismil got his name etched as a prominent freedom fighter with his participation in the Mainpuri conspiracy of 1918. Bismil along with Genda Lal Dixit, a schoolteacher from Auraiya, organized youth from Etawah, Mainpuri, Agra and Shahjahanpur districts to strengthen their organizations, ‘Matrivedi’ and ‘Shivaji Samiti’. He published a pamphlet titled ‘Deshwasiyon ke Naam’ and distributed it along with his poem ‘Mainpuri ki Pratigya’ on January 28, 1918. To collect funds for the parties, they looted government coffers.
His ideals of freedom struggle stood in stark contrast to that of Mahatma Gandhi and he would reportedly say “independence would not be achieved by means of non-violence”. After conflicting views and growing resentment with the Congress party, he formed the Hindustan Republic Association which soon had leaders like Bhagat Singh and Chandrashekhar Azad.
On August 9, 1925, Ram Prasad Bismil along with companions Ashfaqulla Khan and others executed the plan of looting the train at Kakori near Lucknow. After the revolutionaries stopped the 8-Down Saharanpur Lucknow passenger train at Kakori, Ashfaqulla Khan, Sachindra Bakshi, Rajendra Lahiri and Ram Prasad Bismil subdued the guard and looted cash meant for the treasury. Within a month of the attack, the angered colonial authorities arrested more than a dozen HRA members. After the trial in the so-called Kakori conspiracy, these four revolutionaries were sentenced to be hanged.
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