Shaheed Udham Singh, a revolutionary nationalist, was born on 26 December 1899, at Sunam, in the then princely state of Patiala.  Freedom fighter Udham Singh avenged the Jallianwala Bagh massacre of 1919

Shaheed  Udham Singh

Born in Sunam in Punjab’s Sangrur district in 1899. He was a political activist who got associated with the Ghadar Party while in the US. The multi-ethnic party was believed to have communist tendencies .Sohan Singh Bhakna in 1913 founded the party. Headquartered in California, the party was committed to the ouster of the British from India. In 1934, Singh made his way to London with the purpose of assassinating O’Dwyer.  Who in 1919 had been the Lieutenant Governor of Punjab

       Born as Sher Singh, the brave Indian revolutionary is remembered for assassinating Sir Michael O’Dwyer, in order to avenge the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre. He was sentenced to death  .(On July 31, 1940 )

            The heinous act of killing around 1000 non-violent protesters and pilgrims and injuring another 1000 who had assembled in Jallianwala Bagh, Amritsar, Punjab for Baisakhi, April 13,1919 celebrations on the command of Reginald Edward Harry Dyer. This coward, spineless and profoundly inhumane act by the British enraged the entire nation. And Udham Singh was not the one to keep quiet about it.

He targeted Michael O’Dwyer, the Lieutenant Governor of Punjab from 1912 to 1919, who supported General Dyer and called the massacre a “correct” action.