Chauri Chaura Incident 1922 - Shaheed Smaarak | Gorakhpur

Story of Chauri-Chaura incident

Gandhiji started the Non-Cooperation Movement against the British rule. At that time, Chauri Chaura of UP used to be a big market for British clothes and other items. Under the movement, the countrymen were renouncing British titles, government schools and other items.

Under this, the protest was also going on in the local market. On 2 February 1922, the police arrested two leaders of the agitators. In protest, on February 4, about three thousand agitators demonstrated in front of the police station and shouted slogans against the British rule.

To stop this, the police fired air, but it did not affect the satyagrahis. Then the police opened fire, killing three people and injuring many others. Meanwhile, the policemen's bullets ended and they hid in the police station.

Angry revolutionaries set fire to the police station by provoking death of their colleagues. In this incident, a total of 22 policemen including the then inspector Gupteshwar Singh were burnt to death. Gandhiji postponed his non-cooperation movement as soon as he came to know about this incident. Many nationalist leaders like CR. Das, Motilal Nehru, Subhash Chandra Bose and Jawaharlal Nehru etc. expressed their disagreement with Gandhiji's decision to postpone the movement.

In February 1922, the Congress Working Committee met in Bardoli. A resolution was passed in this meeting, which prohibited all such activities which violate the law. In addition, several creative works were also announced in the proposal. These included programs like popularizing Khadi, establishment of national schools, campaign in support of liquor ban, campaign for eradication of untouchability and strengthening Hindu-Muslim unity.

On March 10, 1922, Gandhiji was arrested on charges of sedition by British officials in Bombay (now Mumbai), India. He was sentenced to six years in prison for his involvement in protesting the British colonial government in India.

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In the incident, 222 people were accused, out of which 19 were sentenced to death on July 2, 1923.

After this incident, two parties of revolutionaries involved in the freedom movement were formed. One was the soft party and the other was the hot party. Shaheed-e-Azam became the hero of many revolutionary hot parties like Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev, Rajguru, Ram Prasad Bismil and Chandrashekhar Azad.

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Former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi laid the foundation stone of the martyr memorial building on February 6, 1982, 60 years after the Chauri-Chaura incident. While former Prime Minister Narasimha Rao inaugurated it on 19 July 1993. This memorial, built in the memory of the Chauri-Chaura agitators, is in disrepair today due to lack of maintenance.