LALA LAJPAT RAI              

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Context

• PM pays tributes to Lala Lajpat Rai on his Jayanti.

About Lajpat Rai

• He was an Indian independence activist.
• He played a pivotal role in the Indian Independence movement.
• He was popularly known as Punjab Kesari.
• He was one of the three Lal Bal Pal triumvirate.
• He was also associated with activities of Punjab National Bank and Lakshmi Insurance Companyin their early stages in 1894.
• He was elected President of the Indian National Congress in the Calcutta Special Session of 1920.
• In 1921, he founded Servants of the People Society, a non-profit welfare organization, in Lahore.
• Lala Lajpat Rai approved that the lower caste should be allowed to read them and recite the mantras from the Vedas.
• He helped to establish the nationalistic Dayananda Anglo-VedicSchool and became a follower of Dayananda Sarasvati, the founder of the conservative Hindu society Arya Samaj (“Society of Aryans”).
• Lajpat Rai’s most important writings include The Story of My Deportation (1908), Arya Samaj (1915), The United States of America: A Hindu’s Impression (1916), England’s Debt to India: A Historical Narrative of Britain’s Fiscal Policy in India (1917), and Unhappy India (1928).

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