Shaheed Diwas 2026: Who will be luckier than me? That last letter of Bhagat Singh just before his hanging

News India Live, Digital Desk: Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev and Rajguru were hanged at 7.33 pm on 23 March 1931. But do you know that on 22 March 1931, just a day before kissing the noose, Bhagat Singh wrote a last letter to his comrades (prisoners)? Every word of this letter written in Urdu is a witness to his fearlessness, foresight and immense love for the country. He had clearly said that he did not want to live a ‘constrained’ life and his death would be the biggest victory of the revolution. Excerpts from Bhagat Singh’s last letter: “Friends, it is natural that I should also have the desire to live, I do not want to hide it. But I can remain alive on one condition – that I do not want to live in captivity or in a restricted manner.” Symbol of revolution: He wrote, “My name has become a symbol of the Indian revolution. Revolutionary Party The ideals of Bhagat Singh have lifted me very high, so high that I could not have been higher if I had been alive.” Significance of death: Bhagat Singh believed that his martyrdom would be more effective. He said, “If I escape the noose of gallows, my weaknesses will be revealed to the people and the symbol of the revolution will fade away. But if I am hanged laughingly, the mothers of the country will wish for their children to become ‘Bhagat Singh’.” Final pride: At the end of the letter he wrote, “Who will be luckier than me? Nowadays I am very proud of myself. Now I am eagerly waiting for the final test (hanging). I wish A few days before his hanging, he had also written a letter to his younger brother Kultar Singh, in which he had told him to take care of the family and not to lose courage. He had written, “He is always worried about what new style is there, we have this hobby of seeing what is the extent of oppression.” That last evening of hanging: Orzel’s records show that when the jailer came to take him, Bhagat Singh was reading Lenin’s biography. He smiled and said, “Wait, a revolutionary is meeting another revolutionary.” After finishing the page, he got up and walked towards the hanging house along with Sukhdev and Rajguru shouting slogans of ‘Inquilab Zindabad’.