12 Facts About Yogendra Shukla

Yogendra Shukla was an Indian nationalist and freedom fighter from Bihar.

Yogendra Shukla served in the Cellular Jail, and he was among the founders of Hindustan Socialist Republican Association.

From 1932 to 1937, Yogendra served a prison sentence in Kalapani, as one of the leaders of the revolutionary movement in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh.

Yogendra Shukla was a senior associate of Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Datta and had even trained them.

Yogendra Shukla had to serve prison terms for a total of more than sixteen and a half years for his revolutionary activities.

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In 1937, Yogendra Shukla was transferred to Hazaribagh Central Jail as a result of his 46 days of hunger strike.

Yogendra Shukla joined the Indian National Congress after his release and was elected vice-chairman of the Muzaffarpur District Congress Committee.

Yogendra Shukla was elected a member of the All India Congress Committee in 1938 but later joined the Congress Socialist Party at the instance of Jayaprakash Narayan.

Yogendra Shukla was arrested in 1940, soon after he became a member of Central Committee of the All India Kisan Sabha in place of Swami Sahajanand Saraswati.

When Mahatma Gandhi launched the Quit India Movement in August 1942, Yogendra Shukla scaled the wall of Hazaribagh Central Jail along with Jayaprakash Narayan, Suraj Narayan Singh, Gulab Chand Gupta, Ramnandan Mishra and Shaligram Singh intending to start the underground movement for freedom.

The government believed that one day before his arrest Yogendra Shukla had helped four prisoners escape from Muzaffarpur jail.

Yogendra Shukla was lodged in Buxar Jail and kept in bar fetters for three years.