The Uttar Pradesh government has renamed the ‘Kakori train conspiracy’ as ‘Kakori Train Action’, while paying tributes to the revolutionaries who were hanged for robbing a train at Kakori to buy weapons in 1925.
- UP Governor Anandiben Patel and Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on August 9 attended a programme held on the anniversary of the event at Kakori-based Kakori Shaheed Smarak on the outskirts of Lucknow.
- The new name was used in official communications to refer to the event.
About Kakori Train Action
- The ‘Kakori Train Action (Kakori Conspiracy or Kakori Conspiracy Case or Kakori Train Robbery) was carried out by the Hindustan Republic Association in the Kakori town of the United Provinces (now Uttar Pradesh) on 9 August 1925 during the Indian Independence Movement against the British.
- On 9 August 1925, members of the revolutionary party led by Ramprasad Bismil stopped a Lucknow –bound train carrying money collected from railway stations enroute.
- Some 30 individuals were put on trial before the special magistrate at Lucknow.
- While Ram Prasad Bismil, Thakur Roshan Singh, Rajendra Nath Lahiri and Ashfaqullah Khan were given death sentences, Shachindra Nath Sanyal and Sachindra Bakshi were deported to Kala Pani (Port Blair cellular jail).
