Batukeshwar Dutt is best known for having exploded two bombs, along with Bhagat Singh, in the Central Legislative Assembly in New Delhi on 8 April 1929.
15 Facts About Batukeshwar Dutt
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Batukeshwar Dutt was a member of the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association.
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Batukeshwar Dutt was born on 18 November 1910 in Khandaghosh village, Purba Bardhaman district, in what is West Bengal in a Bengali Kayastha family.
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Batukeshwar Dutt graduated from Pandit Prithi Nath High School in Cawnpore.
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Batukeshwar Dutt was a close associate of freedom fighters such as Chandra Shekhar Azad and Bhagat Singh, the latter of whom he met in Cawnpore in 1924.
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Batukeshwar Dutt learned about bomb-making while working for the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association.
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However, later the plan was changed and Batukeshwar Dutt was entrusted with planting it alongside Singh.
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On 8 April 1929, Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt threw two bombs inside the assembly rushing from Visitor's Gallery.
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Batukeshwar Dutt was deported to the Cellular Jail, Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
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Batukeshwar Dutt nonetheless participated in the Quit India Movement of Mahatma Gandhi and was again jailed for four years.
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Batukeshwar Dutt was forced into starting a transport business for livelihood.
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Batukeshwar Dutt was cremated in Hussainiwala near Firozepur in Punjab where the bodies of his comrades Bhagat Singh, Shivaram Rajguru and Sukhdev Thapar were cremated many years before.
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Batukeshwar Dutt was survived by his only daughter, Bharti Dutta Bagchi, in Patna where his house was situated in the Jakkanpur area.
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Batukeshwar Dutt was one of the writers of the film Shaheed.
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Rajanarayanan's novel Gopallapurathu makkal, Batukeshwar Dutt is anachronistically mentioned as dead on the 56th day of his hunger-strike in 1929.