Just finished watching the movie of the famous revolutionary who avenged the horrific Jallianwala Bagh massacre and assassinated Michael O'Dwyer, 20 years later in England. The film portrays the most brutal and gory events in India’s history that resulted in the death of about 1,000 people and reminds us how people sacrificed to get us the freedom we enjoy. But what is not shown in the movie is that back in India , while he was still waiting for his trial ,in March 1940, Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru, condemned the action of Udham Singh as senseless. He was sent to gallows in July 1940 and quickly forgotten.
In 1974, Singh's remains were exhumed and repatriated to India at the request of MLA Sadhu Singh Thind. Thind accompanied the remains back to India, where the casket was received by Indira Gandhi, Shankar Dayal Sharma and Zail Singh.
Udham Singh was later cremated in his birthplace of Sunam in Punjab and his ashes were scattered in the Sutlej river. Some of his ashes were retained; these retained ashes are kept inside a sealed urn at Jallianwala Bagh.
A special thanks to Ms Mayawati, who named a district (Udham Singh Nagar) in October 1995, a long pending step to pay homage to such forgotten heroes.
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