Ferozepur, March 22
Ahead of celebration of 92nd Martyrs Anniversary of Shaheed Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev, when Chief Minister, Punjab Bhagwant Singh Mann, is also visiting, the National Martyrs Memorial has been given a face-lift. He will also inaugurate the Souvenir Sale Centre during his visit to Hussainiwala.
March 23 is celebrated as Shaheed Diwas or Martyrs’ Day in India. The day commemorates the hanging of India’s three freedom fighters Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev Thapar, and Shivaram Rajguru. The three young freedom fighters, who believed in the ideology of making some noise to wake up the slumbering British rulers, were hanged by the colonialists on March 23, 1931 in Lahore Jail.
