Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday paid tributes to freedom fighter Bhagat Singh on his 113th birth anniversary.
PM Modi tweeted hailing his valour and said that his courage will inspire Indians for generations to come.
Taking to his official Twitter handle, Amit Shah said Bhagat Singh will always remain a source of inspiration for Indians.
“I express my gratitude to Shaheed Bhagat Singh who gave new direction to freedom struggle through his revolutionary ideas and supreme sacrifice and awakened resolve of independence among youth of the country. He will always remain a source of inspiration for us,” Shah's tweet read.
Bhagat Singh was born in Banga village of Faisalabad district (previously called Lyallpur) now in Pakistan's Punjab province in 1907.
The revolutionary freedom fighter was a charismatic Indian socialist revolutionary whose two acts of dramatic violence against the British in India and execution at the age of 23 made him a folk hero of the Indian Independence movement.
Singh, who was hanged in the Lahore jail along with Shivaram Hari Rajguru and Sukhdev Thapar on March 23, 1931, left a strong impact during his lifetime.
