Lala Lajpat Rai Biography - Birth date, Achievements, Career, Family, Awards

Lala Lajpat Rai was born on 28 January 1865 in Faridkot district, Punjab (India). His father's name was Munshi Radha Krishna Agarwal and mother's name was Gulab Devi Aggarwal. His father used to provide education to children as a Urdu teacher in a secondary school, Rewari, Punjab province.

Lala Lajpat Rai died on 17 November 1928 (age 63 years) in Lahore, Punjab, British India due to Scott's blows and he suffered a lot of injuries.

In the year 1877, Lala Lajpat Rai was married to Radha Devi Aggarwal, to whom he had two sons, Amrit Rai Aggarwal and Pyarelal Agarwal, and a daughter, Parvati Agarwal. At the end of the year 1870, his father was transferred to Rewari, where he did his early education at Government Higher Secondary School, Rewari, Punjab Province (present-day Haryana, India), and while his father also worked as a teacher in Urdu. Were. During his early life, Rai's Hindu ideas and belief in Hinduism were inherited by his father and his religious mother, which he successfully applied to create a career in reforming religion and Indian policy through politics and journalistic writing. Was. did. In the year 1880, Lajpat Rai enrolled in the Government College of Lahore for the study of law, where he came in contact with patriots and future freedom fighters like Lala Hans Raj and Pandit Guru Dutt.

Lala ji joined the Congress' Prayag Sammelan "of 1888 at the age of 23. In 1888, he attended the Allahabad session of the Congress for the first time, which was presided over by Mr. George Yule. Lala Lajpat Rai Is also known as' Punjab Kesari "or" Lion of Punjab ". Lalaji was instrumental in making the Congress's "Lahore Session" a success. He was elected a member of the "Municipal Corporation of Hisar" and was later elected Secretary. Lala Lajpat Rai was also the head of the "Lakshmi Insurance Company". Lala Lajpat Rai's signature campaign was also launched to introduce Hindi in the country. Lala Lajpat Rai was also the president of "All India Trade Union Congress", it was founded in 1920 AD.

In 1920, Lala ji led the Non-Cooperation Movement in Punjab, due to which he was jailed in 1921. After this, Lalaji founded the "Lok Sevak Sangh". He established the Laxmi Building in Karachi, which still bears a plaque in his memory. During the nationalization of the life insurance business during 1956, Lakhmi Insurance Company was merged with Life Insurance Corporation of India. In the year 1924, Lalaji joined the Swarajya Party formed under the Congress and was elected a member of the "Central Section Assembly". Lala Lajpat Rai was also made the president of the Calcutta session of the "Hindu Mahasabha" held in the year 1925. In 1927, Lajpat Rai established a trust to build and run a tuberculosis hospital for women in memory of his mother, allegedly at the place where his mother, Gulab Devi, died of tuberculosis in Lahore. . It was opened on Gulab Devi Chest Hospital and on 17 July 1934. Now Gulab Devi Memorial Hospital is one of the largest hospital in present-day Pakistan which serves more than 2000 patients at a time.

He is named after Lala Lajpat Rai Memorial Medical College, Meerut. In the year 1998, Lala Lajpat Rai Institute of Engineering and Technology, Moga was named after him. In 2010, the Haryana government established Lala Lajpat Rai Veterinary and Animal Sciences University in Hisar in his memory. Lajpat Nagar and Lala Lajpat Rai Chowk with His Statue at Hisar Lajpat Nagar and Lajpat Nagar Central Market in New Delhi, Lala Lajpat Rai Memorial Park in Lajpat Nagar, Lajpat Rai Market in Chandni Chowk, Delhi Lala Lajpat Rai Hall of India in Indian Institutions . Technology (IIT) in Kanpur and Kharagpur Lala Lajpat Rai Hospital in Kanpur, bus terminus in his hometown Jagaram, several institutes, schools and libraries have been named in his honor. In addition, many metros and other cities in India have many roads named after them.