Union Home Minister Pays Tribute to Revolutionary Batukeshwar Dutt on Death Anniversary

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Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh paid tribute to revolutionary freedom fighter Batukeshwar Dutt on his 61st death anniversary, 20 July 2026.
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Dutt, along with Bhagat Singh, threw non-lethal bombs in the Central Legislative Assembly on 8 April 1929 to protest repressive colonial bills, raising the slogan 'Inquilab Zindabad'.
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Sentenced to life imprisonment (transportation to the Andaman Cellular Jail), he later joined the Quit India Movement (1942) and died on 20 July 1965; he was cremated at Hussainiwala, Punjab, alongside Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev.

●Born: 18 November 1910, Oari village, Purba Bardhaman district, Bengal
●Known for: Central Legislative Assembly bombing with Bhagat Singh, 8 April 1929
●Organisation: Hindustan Socialist Republican Association (HSRA)
●Died: 20 July 1965, at AIIMS Delhi; cremated at Hussainiwala, Punjab

On 8 April 1929, Dutt and Bhagat Singh threw two low-intensity bombs onto vacant areas of the Central Legislative Assembly floor in Delhi, scattered leaflets, and raised the slogan 'Inquilab Zindabad!' to protest the Public Safety Bill and Trade Disputes Bill. They courted arrest deliberately, using the ensuing trial as a public platform, and were sentenced to transportation for life. In jail, Dutt and Singh undertook a hunger strike protesting the treatment of Indian political prisoners, which secured improved conditions.

1924

Met Bhagat Singh in Kanpur; joined the revolutionary movement

8 Apr 1929

Central Legislative Assembly bombing with Bhagat Singh

1929

Sentenced to transportation for life; sent to Cellular Jail, Andamans

1938

Released after contracting tuberculosis in jail

1942

Joined the Quit India Movement; imprisoned again for four years

20 Jul 1965

Died at AIIMS Delhi, aged 54

Dutt is a recurring static-GK figure linking the Central Assembly bombing, HSRA, and the post-independence neglect faced by several revolutionaries — a contrast often drawn in exam and public-discourse contexts between wartime sacrifice and post-independence hardship.

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GS Paper I - Modern Indian History (Freedom Struggle, Revolutionary Movement)

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★Who accompanied Bhagat Singh in the Central Assembly bombing?
★Where was Batukeshwar Dutt cremated?

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Hindustan Socialist Republican Association — revolutionary organisation including Bhagat Singh, Batukeshwar Dutt, Chandrashekhar Azad and Sukhdev

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•Central Assembly bombing: 8 April 1929, Batukeshwar Dutt and Bhagat Singh
•Dutt died 20 July 1965; cremated at Hussainiwala, Punjab

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Union Home Minister Pays Tribute to Revolutionary Batukeshwar Dutt on Death Anniversary

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Batukeshwar Dutt is best known for which act, carried out alongside Bhagat Singh on 8 April 1929?

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