Sachindra Bakshi | |
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| Born | Sachindra Nath Bakshi (1904-12-25)25 December 1904 |
| Died | 23 November 1984(1984-11-23) (aged 79) Sultanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India |
| Occupation | Freedom fighter |
| Organization | Hindustan Republican Association |
| Movement | Indian Independence Movement |
Sachindra Nath Bakshi (25 December 1904 – 23 November 1984) was a prominent Indian revolutionary and one of the founding members ofHindustan Republican Association (HRA, which after 1928 became the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association or HSRA)[1] that was created to carry out revolutionary activities against theBritish Empire in India.
He was one of revolutionaries who participated in theKakori train robbery and two months later he and his friends were sent to Barrack number 11 in the Lucknow Central Jail[2] (now called Lucknow District Jail) and was sentenced to life for the same.
In 1969 Bakshi was elected MLA of theBharatiya Jana Sangh fromVaranasi South. Once he narrated an incident related to the Kakori trial in theVidhan Sabha which caused lot of uproar. He narrated how Jagat Narain Mulla, and his son – both of whom went on to become Congress leaders – for some money had chosen to be prosecution lawyers against the Kakori heroes.[3]