CHATTOGRAM, Mar 22: The 125th birth anniversary of Master Da Surya Sen was observed at his village home at Noapara under Raojan Upazila in Chattogram today.
Political and cultural organisations observed the day placing floral wreaths at his monument at Raojan this morning.
Master Da Smriti Rokka Parishad, Surya Sen Smriti Sangsad, Raojan Upazila Awami League, Communist party, Jubo League, Chhatra League, Chhatra Union and cultural organisations placed floral wreaths at the monument of Surya Sen.
Later, Surya Sen Smriti Sangsad and Surya Sen Library held a rally. The speakers at the rally said Surya Sen devoted his life to independence of the country.
Surya Sen was a revolutionary leader and he led the 1930 Chattogram armoury raid in Chattogram of the then Bengal in India. He was a school teacher by profession and was popularly called as Master Da. His father Ramaniranjan Sen was also a teacher. He was born on March 22, 1894 at Noapara, under Raozan Upazila in Chattogram.
His political life started somewhere around 1916 when he was a student of Baharampur College (West Bengal) preparing for his graduation. The police raided the college hostel and few of his fellow resident students were searched. The revolutionary students attracted his keen attention and gradually he was drawn into radical politics, the aim of which was to liberate the motherland by all possible means.
In 1918, he was selected as president of Indian National Congress, Chattogram branch. In 1916 when he was a BA student in Berhampore College he learned about Indian freedom movement from one of his teachers. He was attracted by revolutionary ideals and joined a revolutionary organisation Anushilan Samity.
He was arrested in 1933 and was brutally tortured and eventually tried by a Special Tribunal. On January 12, 1934 he was hanged with his lieutenant Tarakeswer Dastidar in Chattogram.
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