Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has announced to commemorate February 15 as “Shahid Diwas” in memory of the 34 freedom fighters who were killed by police in Tarapur town of Bihar’s Munger district 90 years ago.
What was Tarapur massacre?
- The Tarapur massacre was the biggest carried out by the British police after the one in Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar in 1919, said Nitish Kumar.
- On February 15, 1932, a group of young freedom fighters planned to hoist an Indian national flag at Thana Bhavan in Tarapur.
- Despite a brutal lathicharge by Police, one Gopal Singh succeeded in raising the flag at Thana Bhavan.
- A 4,000-strong crowd pelted the police with stones, injuring an officer of the civil administration. The police responded by opening indiscriminate fire on the crowd killing 34 persons, even though there were claims of an even larger number of deaths.
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