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).
