Lucknow: In his 20 roaring, in Bhargava was Lucknow Christian College students in 1942 when Mahatma Gandhi had made a call for the Indian outgoing movement.
Fresh like yesterday in a 94-year-old memory, on August 10, 1942, Bhargava and several other students reached the University campus after crossing the Gomti River near the University boat club because England had blocked the monkey bridge.
Students have decided to take a large procession from the university to the main city, but they were stopped on the bridge by the police as commanding the occupants under the CRPC section.
“The British collector is also present at the place.
Some female students in the group moved and returned to tell us about the presence of military vehicles with Tommys (British soldiers) parked on Jalan Imli in front of Hazratganj.
They warn us, but students insist on taking procession,” Remember Bhargava, now managing Feroze Gandhi College Secretary Rae Bareli.
“After some commotion, the collector ordered his children two minutes, Buntari or the cost of Lathi.
‘After two minutes, a Sergeant Anglo-India won a student standing right next to me and hit him with a stick followed by a police stick left in students, “I recall.
Students fled and took refuge in the campus limit, but pelted the stones in the police, who replied by shooting.
The bullet crashed into the UNION student building.
Hearing of shots, a number of teachers led by Prof.
NK Sidhanta and Prof.
Shanker Dayal Sharma intervened and told officials that Section 144 did not ban movement in groups of three and four.
The university teacher ordered so much respect at that time that even the ruling British collector when faced must be subject to their logic request, “said Bhargava.
Prof.
Sidhanta is in the Department of English and close to Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose and Sharma is a faculty in the Law Department And then became the ninth president of India.
Between the August 1942 and 1946 Quit Movement, England was under extraordinary pressure to leave India.
This means increasing torment on freedom and arresting fighters.
Many fighters freedom run underground, but continue their struggle .
“I live in a boarding house in Kaiserbagh near Victoria Park now called Begum Hazrat Expensive Park with several other students.
Prominent freedom fighter like Munshi Chandrika Prasad and Jitendra Nath Tewari is familiar to us.
Often these freedom fighters will come to our residence during this period in wee time and will gladly donate our savings to them to continue the dispute, “he said.
When the sky said, ‘We’re free'” on August 15, 1947, the procession filled the road – Lucknow.
The governor’s house, now Raj Bhawan, opened the gate for the first time for Indians to come and celebrate a joint day soon after the first Indian governor up Sarojini Naidu took over.
Aircraft Trainee Light Light Tiger Moth dropped leaflets from the sky that read ‘we are free’.
My friends and I visited the governor’s house, sat on the campus yard and enjoyed the candy we carryed, “recalled Bhargava, painted a clear picture of an important day.