PM Narendra Modi today recalled Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak and Chandrashekhar Azad on their birth anniversaries on 23 July.
PM Modi tweeted “भारत मां के दो वीर सपूत लोकमान्य बाल गंगाधर तिलक और चंद्रशेखर आजाद को उनकी जन्म-जयंती पर शत-शत नमन।”
Bal Gangadhar Tilak was born on 23 July 1856 in Chikhali town of Ratnagiri, Maharashtra. Concurrently, Chandrasekhar Azad was born on 23 July 1906 in Bhabra in Alirajpur locale of Madhya Pradesh.
Live Heed, celebrates the 164th birth anniversary of the ‘Swaraj’ leader. He was an Indian nationalist, teacher and a freedom fighter. According to history, Tilak was the first leader of the Indian independence movement.
The British colonial authorities called him “the father of Indian unrest.” He was also conferred with the title ‘Lokmanya,’ meaning ‘accepted by the people as their leader.’
Chandrashekhar Azad, popularly known as ‘Azad,’ was born on July 23, 1906, in Bhabhara village in the present Alirajpur district of Madhya Pradesh.
He was popularly known as Azad, which meant ‘free.’ This year (2020), we are celebrating the 114th birth anniversary of the revolutionary leader. Azad was an Indian revolutionary involved in the Kakori train robbery in 1925, to blow up India’s train in 1926.
