He lived upto his self-pride in not surrendering and in not succumbing to the enemy’s bullets. On Februhe shot himself dead while bravely fighting the British.
He joined the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association (HSRA) as a freedom fighter and later became its leader.Azad was involved in the Kakori train robbery, the Central Legislative Assembly bomb incident, the Delhi conspiracy and the shooting of British Police Superintendent Saunders at Lahore (1928) to avenge the killing of Lala Lajpat Rai. He joined Gandhi’s Non-Cooperation Movement but the violence perpetrated by the British infuriated him to such an extent that he turned a revolutionary. The significance of this date lies in the fact that today in the year 1931 a valiant patriot by the name of Chandrashekhar Azad attained martyrdom while fighting the British so that we Indians could rejoice in freedom. When he realised that it would not be possible for him to escape, he shot himself by his Mauser pistol and fulfilled his vow. 1931, he was rounded up by British forces at Alfred Park Allahabad.
He had vowed that he would not be caught alive by British forces. A great freedom fighter and revolutionary, he belonged to village Badarqa where his parental house still exists.
