Sardar Ajit Singh

भगत सिंह की फिल्म देखने के बाद लोगों के मन में ये सवाल उठता है की भगत सिंह के चाचा का क्या हुआ ?
उन्हूने 38 साल अंग्रेजों के खिलाफ काम किया Iran, Rome, Geneva, Paris, and Rio de Janeiro, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, France, USA में क्रांतिकारिओं के साथ |
He helped Subhash Chandra Bose in Italy. He broadcasted rebellion to Indian troops in Africa and worked to raise troops from captured Indian soldiers emprisoned in Italy forming a revolutionary army of the Indian prisoners of war. His passionate speeches in Hindustani broadcast from Rome by Radio.

He came back to India at the invitation of Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru after remaining in exile for 38 years, returning in March 1947 and breathed his last on the morning of 15 August 1947 at Dalhousie, Punjab .

Sardar Ajit Singh Sandhu was born into a patriotic family from Punjab in India. He was born on 23 February 1881 at Khatkar kalan village in Jalandhar District (now in Shaheed Bhagat Singh district). He studied up to matric at Saindas Anglo Sanskrit School Jallandhar, and later joined Law College, Barreily( UP). During this period he became intensely involved in the Indian freedom movement and left his law studies.

Sardar Ajit Singh along with copatriots organised an agitation by peasents of Punjab against anti farmer British laws known as Punjab Colonisation Act (Amendment) 1906 and administrative orders of enhancing the water rate charges, was an early protester in the Punjab region of India who challenged British rule, and openly criticized the Indian colonial government. He along with Lala Lajpat Rai was exiled to Mandley (Burma) in May 1907. But due to great public pressure and apprehention of unrest in Army, these bills were withdrawn and both released in Nov 1907. But he along with his brothers Kishan Singh and Swaran Singh and Sufi Amba Parshad continue publishing political literature for when British Government was planning to arrest them and put them in long term jail .

Sardar Ajit Singh was the hero of “Pagdi Sambhal Jatta” movement. The “Pagdi Sambhal Jatta” movement had spread far beyond the peasants to engulf the army. In 1907, he was deported to Mandalay Jail in Burma along with Lala Lajpat Rai. After his release, He along with Sufi Amba Parshad escaped to Iran in 1909 rapidly developed as a centre for revolutionary activities by groups led by Sardar Ajit Singh and Sufi Amba Prasad who had worked there since 1909. The recruits to these groups included young nationalists of the likes of Rhishikesh Letha, Zia-ul-Haq, Thakur Das Dhuri . By 1910, the activities of these groups and their publication, the Hayat, had been noticed by the British intelligence. Reports as early as 1910 indicated German efforts to unite Turkey and Persia and proceed to Afghanistan to threaten British India.
However, Ajit Singh’s departure in 1911 brought the Indian revolutionary activities to a grinding halt, while British representations to Persia successfully curbed whatever activity that remained in the country. From there, he traveled to Rome, Geneva, Paris, and Rio de Janeiro, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, France, USA, and worked with revolutionaries against Britishers.
He earned his leaving by teaching.

In 1939, he returned to Europe and shifted to Italy where, in order to intensify his activities and mobilize Italian public and government support in favour of India, he formed the Friends of India Society. Later on he broadcasted rebellion to Indian troops in Africa and worked to raise troops from captured Indian soldiers emprisoned in Italy forming a revolutionary army of the Indian prisoners of war. His passionate speeches in Hindustani broadcast from Rome by Radio and his own example of sacrifice and suffering for the country made had made a deep impact on the Indian soldiers.

He helped Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose in his mission in Italy. He advised Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose to learn to speak Hindustani as he had only been able to enlist 25 members in his Berlin Azad Hind Fauj (army) where he and his partners in Italy had raised more than 10,000 men.

After the fall of Italy, Ajit Singh was imprisoned and kept in an Italian jail and later, when the Germans surrendered, he was shifted to a jail in Germany. The British intended to see that he was punished for his work on behalf of the Axis powers. Turned over at one time to the care of an American camp he shared the facts of why he had worked against the British in the war and was promtly freed and sent on his way by an American officer who had considered him a patriot like those who had worked to win America’s freedom from British rule. But the British were quick to arrest him again. After suffering from imprisonment in bad, often cold, damp conditions with little food or medical treatment (one time, he thought that he was purposely mis-diagnosed with tubeculosis and then forced to sleep between two very ill tuberculosis patients. Locked up in Germany he was ventually released. He finally made it to Britain and the good care of his well wishers and admirers.

He came back to India at the invitation of Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru after remaining in exile for 38 years, returning in March 1947 and breathed his last on the morning of 15 August 1947 at Dalhousie Punjab . The day India was declared free from British Rule. .
After spending some time in Delhi, he went to Dalhousie .

On August 15, 1947 he uttered his last breath; On this date India got its Independence. His last words were, “Thank God, my mission is fulfilled.”