AMRIT FESTIVAL OF INDEPENDENCE "A Tribute to Heroes of Indian Freedom Struggle"

             India's Forgotten...? Freedom Fighter...?

                                    Udmi Ram…?

 Iron nails were buried in the hands tied to the tree .?

Hardly anyone knows about such a great patriotic revolutionary warrior and hardly remembers his martyrdom. The heroic warrior Udmi ram and his wife Ratni Devi were tortured with mole and mole. Tie on the Peepal tree of the halt, iron nails were buried in their hands, they were kept hungry and thirsty. When asked for water to drink, urine was forcibly poured into his mouth. The British were strictly guarded. This true son of Mother India remained tied like this for 35 days. On June 27, 1858, this red mother of India slept in eternal sleep making the country and the countrymen forever indebted to them for life. After the martyrdom of Udmi Ram, the British government also took very bad condition of his body and did not even hand it over to his family. The British hid the dead body of this great revolutionary somewhere and later destroyed it. This is the same Udmi Ram whose associate friends were trampled under a stone crusher by publicly laying them on the road at Bahalgarh Chowk. This is the same Udmi Ram, whose father not only got a terrible punishment for the whole village and even today the whole village shudders to remember that punishment.

        Publicly trampled badly on the road under the stone crusher

Umi Ram was a great revolutionary, patriot and sacrifice during the first freedom struggle of 1857. He was born in the village of Libaspur which is presently in Sonipat district of Haryana. Udmi Ram was the Numbardar of his village in 1857 and was full of patriotism. At the time of the revolution, a brave youth named Udmi Ram was a resident of this village, who used to fight with the British soldiers who used to run away from Delhi. See the irony - what can be more ironic than this that the descendants of this great revolutionary are today trapped in the vicious cycle of extreme poverty and are fascinated by grain, yet no government has taken care of them till date. His descendants have fought against the injustices done to them from Lahore to Delhi and have appealed for justice from the state governments to the central governments, but till date they have not got justice.

Around 1857, Shaheed Udmi Ram was the numberdar of his village Libaspur and the tales of his patriotism were famous far and wide. This village is located on Sonepat National Highway near Libaspur, Delhi. A large number of British officers used to pass through this national highway. Under the leadership of Umi Ram, Gulab Singh, Jasram, Ramjas Sahaj Ram, Ratia etc. had formed an organization of 22 brave warriors, who were very brave, healthy, beautiful, strong body youth, the young revolutionaries of this organization went underground and used their traditional weapons like, The British officers passing through here with sticks, jellies, gandasi, axes, furshes, etc., used to attack the officers and put them to death in deep gorges and bushes. Therefore, the British soldiers passing through that road used to kill the soldiers selectively and ended them all. Udmi Ram, along with his comrades, attacked the officer with an ambush and put that British officer to death. His wife was also with the British officer. Umi Ram, the heroic pillar of Indian culture, considered it a sin to raise his hand on a woman and after much deliberation, took that English woman safely to the house of a Brahmin in the neighboring village of Libaspur, Bhalgarh, with great dignity and Bai was asked to take full care of her. assigned the responsibility. The news of this incident spread to all the nearby villages. Many people from outside villages came to Libaspur to know the news. Among them was Sitaram, a resident of Rathdhana. He came to the village and made a special effort to know all the circles and also reached Bai ji in Bhalgarh village, where that English woman was staying. He told that English woman that Udmiram, Gulab, Jasram, Ramjas, Ratia etc. of Libaspur have killed many Britishers and are conspiring to kill you too. Sitaram and Baiji had a secret consultation with that English woman. That English goddess gave them many promises and tempted them that if you take me overnight to the safe place of Panipat where the British camp is, then I will get a lot of property for both of them. Both of them arranged for a ride and took him to the British camp in Panipat. After reaching the camp, the British woman got all the confidential information given by Sita Ram recorded in the English camp and also said that Libaspur village has participated in the rebellion the most and its leader is Udmiram.

After this, the havoc of the British was to be broken on Libaspur and Udmiram. After overcoming the revolt of 1857, the revolutionaries and rebellious villages began to be punished severely. In this sequence, the British government surrounded the village of Libaspur one day before sunrise. Udmi, Jasram, Ramjas, Sahajram, Ratia etc. The brave warriors carried their simple weapons like jellies, swords, gandas, sticks and balls, but these few brave soldiers with a very large British army of ordinary weapons, which were equipped with modern weapons, when Could you go to war? Umi Ram's father was also brutally beaten up. Udami Ram and his companions had to go underground. The British wreaked havoc on the villagers. Many were killed and the rest were arrested. Anti-national Baiji and Sitaram were called to identify the arrested persons. The persons whom he told that he had killed the British were arrested. The whole village was badly looted. Thirty-five bullock carts filled with all the riches and valuables of the village were sent to Delhi. The jewelery of all the women of the village was snatched by force. Do not leave anything with anyone. All the people, women, children and old people were beaten to death with whips lying on the ground, but no one opened his mouth against the revolutionaries. Ultimately Udami Rama and his companions were forced to surrender. After this the horrific punishments that the British inflicted on those young revolutionaries cannot be expressed in words. Krantiveer Umi Ram, along with his wife Smt. Ratni Devi, was arrested and taken to the Canal Rest House in Rai and hammered with iron nails on the Peepal tree. G.T. to other revolutionaries. Laying on the road, he was badly beaten with whips and was trampled in public at the Bhaalgarh Chowk near the halt of Rai under the stones of the road crusher. One of these crusher stones is still kept as a memory in Tau Devilal Park of Sonepat.

The heart of the British was not filled in spite of such fierce repression and atrocities. The British government auctioned the entire Libaspur village to its informer at the rate of cows. Sitaram got his name written in the papers of this village and told that Libaspur village was bought and completed the paperwork. Since then, Libaspur village is headed by Sitaram's sons and grandsons and it is written in the same way in the papers. The biggest irony is that even from independence till today, the names of the descendants of the same British informer of Rathdhana, the ruler of Libaspur village. It is and the descendants of Shaheed Udmiram and his revolutionary martyrs are still compelled to live on their own land like the British Raj. The villagers of Libaspur have been making rounds of court-courts for decades to get their land back, but they have not got justice yet. Along with this, it is a matter of greatest irony that the descendants of Udmi Ram, who sacrificed his life for his country, are forced to starve to death. Hardeva Singh, a descendant of Shaheed Udmi Ram, is living with great difficulty in Libaspur village with his children. Hardeva, who is in the below poverty line category, is in debt. Unemployment and unemployment have broken them. In the midst of such circumstances, it can be easily estimated how much pain this descendant of Shaheed Udmi Ram must be suffering. Hardeva narrates his past with great pain and tells that he has been pushed hard to get help from the government, but there is no one to help him.