Sardar Bhagat Singh.
Lahore: These days, there is an uproar in Pakistan over the statement given by a retired army officer regarding freedom fighter Bhagat Singh. In fact, an NGO in Lahore on Tuesday criticized the government for renaming Shadman Chowk after Bhagat Singh and canceling the plan to install his statue there on the recommendation of a retired Pakistani Army officer. Let us tell you that this famous square of Lahore was to be named after Bhagat Singh but retired army officer Tariq Majeed put a hurdle in it by saying objectionable things.
Tariq Majeed was included in the committee
Lahore Metropolitan Corporation on Friday, in response to the contempt petition filed in the Lahore High Court by Imtiaz Rashid Qureshi, Chairman of ‘Bhagat Singh Memorial Foundation Pakistan’, said that the proposal to name Shadman Chowk after Bhagat Singh and install his statue there has been cancelled. Has been done. Lahore Metropolitan Corporation said that the plan to change the name of Shadman Chowk was canceled in view of a report presented by Commodore (retd) Tariq Majeed. Majeed was part of a committee formed by the government to name Shadman Chowk after Bhagat Singh.
‘Bhagat was a terrorist in today’s context’
The corporation said Majeed claimed that ‘Bhagat Singh He was not a revolutionary but a criminal, in today’s terms a terrorist. He had murdered a British police officer and for this crime he was given death sentence along with two accomplices. Addressing a press conference in Lahore on Tuesday, Foundation Chairman Qureshi said Majeed was reminded of Pakistan founder Mohammad Ali Jinnah’s speech praising him in the Central Assembly before calling revolutionary Bhagat Singh a ‘criminal and terrorist’. Needed
‘Jinnah had praised Bhagat Singh’
Qureshi said, ‘Jinnah not only praised the sacrificial personality of Bhagat Singh and his comrades, but also stood in their support with the strongest intentions and questioned the British law and order and principles.’ He termed the government report on Bhagat Singh as ‘ridiculous and tampering with history’ which presented the Islamic viewpoint in a distorted manner. He said, ‘Bhagat Singh was a revolutionary born on the soil of Pakistan and we cannot allow the history of our country to be destroyed for petty political purposes.’ (Language)
