Thread by @sheshapatangi1

#PrafullaChaki.

#SmaranDivas
He was not even 20 when he decided to take his own life rather than getting surrendered to British.

Prafulla Chaki, born on 10th December 1888 in Bogra district (now in Bangladesh). A staunch revolutionary in spirit, Chaki participated in

demonstrations against British and got expelled in class 9. Later, in his schooling in Rangpur National School, he came in touch with other revolutionaries, and grew as one.

Barin Ghosh brought Prafulla to Kolkata and he was enlisted in the Jugantar party.
Prafulla, along with

Khudiram Bose was chosen for the assassination of Kingsford, the magistrate of Muzaffarpur, Bihar. Kingsford, during his previous tenure as the Chief Presidency Magistrate of Calcutta, was unpopular for passing harsh and cruel sentences on young political workers of Bengal.

He was also noted for inflicting corporal punishments on such workers. This led to the planning of his murder, and Chaki and Bose were selected and sent to Muzaffarpur to execute this task.
Prafulla took the fake name of 'Dinesh Chandra Roy' in this operation.
On the evening

of 30 April 1908, the duo was waiting in front of the gate of European Club for Kingsford's carriage to arrive. When a vehicle came out of the gate, a bomb was thrown into the carriage.

There was a mistake towards identification by them, as the vehicle was not carrying

Kingsford, but wife and daughter of Mr Pringle Kennedy, a leading pleader at Muzaffarpur Bar. The daughter died soon after and his wife succumbed to her injuries.

Prafulla and Khudiram took separate routes to escape. Prafulla reached Samastipur where he was provided shelter by

a railway staff member, Triguna Charan Ghosh. Ghosh also provided him with an inter-class ticket for boarding the night train due for Mokama.

Nandalal Banerjee, a police officer travelling in the same compartment grew suspicious of Prafulla and attempted to arrest him on the

Mokama railway station platform.
But Prafulla committed suicide by shooting himself using his own revolver & this was on May 02-1908.

What Happened Later?

Revenge was taken on inspector Nandalal. He was assassinated by two young revolutionaries, Srishh Pal and Ranen Ganguly.

MKG gave this statement that
"Indian people will not win their freedom through these methods".
Remember Friends, this happened in 1908 when Gandhi was in Africa... It took another 8 years for him to come to India & join freedom movement.

However, Bal Gangadhar Tilak in his

newspaper Kesari, defended the two young men and called for immediate swaraj. This was followed by the immediate arrest of Tilak by the British colonial government on charges of sedition.

Khudiram Bose was captured & hanged.

#ForgottenHeroes

#VandeMataram