Leaflet : Assembly Bomb Case - April 8, 1929

Here are the contents of the leaflet that were thrown by Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt from the public gallery, after throwing bombs at the House carefully aimed away from the seated members, on 8^th April 1929.

HINDUSTAN SOCIALIST REPUBLICAN ASSOCIATION

NOTICE

‘It takes a loud voice to make the deaf hear.’ With these immortal words uttered on a similar occasion by Vaillant, a French anarchist martyr, do we strongly justify this action of ours.

Without repeating the humiliating history of the past ten years of the working of the reforms (Montague-Chelmsford Reforms) and without mentioning the insults hrled at the Indian nation through this House – the so-called Indian Parliament – we see this time again, while the people, expecting some more crumbs of reforms from the Simon Commission, are ever quarrelling over the distribution of expected bones, the Government is thrusting upon us new repressive measures like those of the Public Safety Bill and the Trade Disputes Bill, while reserving the Press Sedition Bill for the next session. The indiscriminate arrests of labour leaders working in the open field clesarly indicate whither the wind blows.

In these provocative circumstances, the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association, in all seriousness, realizing their full responsibility, had decided and ordered its army to do this particular action so that a stop be put to this humiliating farce and to let the alien bureaucratic exploiters do what they wish but to make to them before the public eye in their naked form.

Let the representatives of the people return to their constituencies and prepare the masses for the coming revolution. And let the government know that, while protesting against the Public Safety Bill and the Trade Disputes Bill and the callouts murder of Lala Lajpat Rai on behalf of the helpless Indian masses, we want to emphasize the lesson often repeated by history that it is easy to kill individuals but you cannot kill the ideas. Great empires crumbled but the ideas survived. Bourbons and Czars fell while the revolution marched ahead triumphantly.’

We are sorry to admit that we who attach so great a sanctity to human life, we who dream of a glorious future when man will be enjoying perfect peace and full liberty, have been forced to shed human blood. But the sacrifice of individuals at the altar of the great revolution that will bring freedom to all, rendering the exploitation of man by man impossible, is inevitable.

Long Live Revolution!

Balraj

Commander-In-Chief.