114 Years back a legend was born in 1906 in Alirajpur(MP) which was then called Bhabra in Brahmin family of Sitaram Tiwari and Jagrani Devi. His father wants to make him sanskrit scholar and send him to kashi vidyapeeth. @malhar_pandey @MatruBhakt @TheRSS_Piyussh @smitprabhu 
At the age of 15 Chandrashekhar Tiwari joined Gandhiji's Non cooperation movement and got arrested, and before magistrate he gave his name as Azad. from here he got his name as Chandrashekhar azad.
Azad became more aggressive after suspension of movement and met Ram prasad Bismil and joined his organisation Hindustan Republican Association (HRA) which later called HSRA , Hindustan Socialist Republican association.
With Bismil Ji, Ashfaqullah khan, Roshan sighji, and Lahiri ji he reorganised HSRA and started collecting funds for organisation , later Bhagat singh ji also joined HSRA and both raised intensity of revoulutionary acctivities.
In 1925 he was involved in Kakori kand , 1926 blowing up viceroys train and in 1928 Shooting Saunders at Lahore to avenge Lalaji's Death. He often used the name Balraj to sign pamphlets as commander in chief of HSRA, which can be seen on pamphlet below.
After the Saunders case on 27 feb 1931, Azad was sorrounded by police at alfred park allahbad and got wounded when one of his companion turned traitor and given his whereabouts to police. Azad always carried a bullet in case he gets arrested.
In the exchange of fire azad killed three policemen and wounded others as his ammunition got finished , he does not left with option to shot himself. His body was send to Rasulabad secretly but as people heard they gathered on the ghat.
His colt pistol is displayed in Allahbad museum, and Alfred park was later given the name Azad Park. In 1988 a stamp was also published in his name.
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