Union minister Hardeep Singh Puri pays tribute to "one of India's youngest freedom fighters" Khudiram Bose

Dec 03,2021

Union minister Hardeep Singh Puri pays tribute to "one of India's youngest freedom fighters" Khudiram Bose

Hardeep Singh Puri, Union Minister for Housing & Urban Affairs, took to Twitter on Friday morning to pay tribute to freedom fighter Khudiram Bose on his birth anniversary.

He tweeted a photograph of Khudiram Bose and wrote, "Tributes to one of the youngest freedom fighters of Indian fight for independence Shri Khudiram Bose Ji on his birth anniversary. He made the supreme sacrifice for the nation at a young age of 18."

WHO WAS KHUDIRAM BOSE?

Born in 1889, Khudiram Bose was a revolutionary from present-day West Bengal. Having actively participated in protests against the British rule in India since his adolescent years, he rose to prominence in 1908 when he attempted to assassinate British judge Douglas Kingsford. The judge was known for his severe clampdown on revolutionaries.

Along with another revolutionary Prafulla Chaki, Khudiram Bose threw bombs on a carriage that they suspected the British judge was in. However, Douglas Kingsford was not in the targeted carriage and two British women died instead.