Shaheed Bhagat Singh was not only an example of supreme sacrifice for the independence of the country, but was even in his young age a well-studied person with clear ideas about the future tasks and also how to change the country and the world. It was his slogan “Inquilab Zindabad” (Victory to Revolution) which still rings loud throughout the country and the world. I am reproducing two paragraphs from his statement submitted to the Sessions Court Delhi on 6th June 1929 in as accused in the Assembly Bomb case along with Batukeswar Dutt (He was only 23 years when he was hanged by the British   on 23rd March 1931) as an example of the high level of understanding he has reached even by that time.

“The whole edifice of this civilisation, if not saved in time,shall crumble. A radical change, therefore, is necessary and it is the duty of those who realise it to reorganise society on socialistic basis. Unless this thing is done and the exploitation of man by man and of nations by nations is brought to an end, suffering and carnage with which humanity is threatened today, can not be prevented. All talk of ending war and ushering in an era of universal peace is undisguised hypocrisy.

” By Revolution, we mean the ultimate establishment of an order of society which may not be threatened by such break-down, and in which the sovereignty of the proletariat should be recognised and a world federation should redeem humanity from the bondage of capitalism and misery of imperial wars”