Lala Lajpat Rai

1. Popularly known as Punjab Kesari or Lion of Punjab, he was a lawyer and a freedom fighter.
2. At the Bombay session of INC in 1889, he was linked with other two leading freedom fighters
Bipin Chandra Pal and Bal Gangadhar Tilak. The trio was popularly known as LalBalPal.
3. He was one of the pioneers of the Swadeshi Movement along with Bipin Chandra Pal and
Lokmanya Tilak.
4. He went to USA for promoting the cause of Indias freedom struggle, where he founded the
India Home League Society of America, which published a monthly journal titled Young India.
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5. In 1920 he formed the Congress Independence Party in protest against the Jalianwala Bagh
Massacre and Non Cooperation Movement. 6. His efforts saw the formation of Punjab National
Bank in 1895. 7. He was the first President of the All India Trade Union Congress formed in
1920.
8. He founded the Servants of People Society which worked for the freedom movement as well
as for social reform movement in the country.
9. His famous words Every blow aimed at me is a nail in the coffin of British imperialism were
spoken when he received lathis blows during the protest against the visit of Simon Commission.
10. Lala Lajpat Rai died in 1928 as a result of lathi blows.