Bhagat Singh would have been jailed as an ‘Urban Naxal’ by the Modi Government

Bhagat Singh in a letter to his mother wrote, “I have no doubt that my country will be one day free. But I am afraid that brown sahibs are going to sit in the chairs the white sahibs will vacate”.

He was what the present ruling dispensation would call an ‘Urban Naxal’; a university student and a left intellectual- activist; he despised communalism, upheld secularism and critiqued religion; he talked about overthrowing Capitalism, Feudalism and Imperialism.

If he were alive, the Hindutva bandwagon would have hounded him. He would have been called part of a ‘Tukde-Tukde’ gang, an ‘anti-national’, a ‘pseudo-secular’, an ‘urban Naxal’, anti-Hindu etc.