Veer Baal Diwas was celebrated at Kolkata’s Gurudwara Bara Sikh Sangat, where Union Home Minister Amit Shah and national president of the Bharatiya Janta Party JP Nadda paid a visit and offered prayers. To further advance his concept of “Sabka Saath,” Prime Minister Narendra Modi attended a Veer Baal Diwas program earlier in the day on Tuesday at the cutting-edge Bharat Mandapam in the nation’s capital. Prime Minister Modi is expected to lead a youth march in observance of “Veer Baal Diwas” later in the day. Prime Minister Modi declared that December 26 would be observed annually as “Veer Bal Diwas” to commemorate the martyrdom of his sons on January 9, 2022, the day of Sri Guru Gobind Singh Ji’s Prakash Purab.
The day also marks the birth anniversary of Udham Singh, a great revolutionary, who avenged the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, Amritsar on Baisakhi in 1919 by killing General O’Dwyer, who ordered his forces to open fire on peaceful protesters, in March 1940. Shaheed Udham Singh was later hanged by the British in London.
Born on December 26, 899, at Sunam in Punjab, Udham Singh was known as Sher Singh as a child. The Jallianwala Bagh massacre on April 13, 1919, left a life-long impact on Udham Singh.
The people who had gathered to celebrate Baisakhi at Armitsar’s Jallianwala Bagh were fired upon by General Dwyer, who blocked off the main entrance and ordered his troops to open fire on the crowd.