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

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

                        Vishnu Ganesh Pingale….?

                                           Lahore Conspiracy Case …..

Lakhs of people sacrificed their lives to liberate the country. Thousands of people left their homes and unfortunately many of them have been forgotten by the country. One such promising revolutionary was Vishnu Ganesh Pingale. He was a member of the Ghadar Party. He was sentenced to death in 1915 in the Lahore Conspiracy Case and the Hindu-German Conspiracy. For the independence of India, the sons of Mother India who sacrificed laughingly, Hardayal ji had founded the 'Gadar Party' for the independence of India. Flag of the Ghadar Party The Ghadar Party was an organization formed with the aim of making the subordinate India independent from the British. It was built by the Indians of America and Canada on 25 June 1913. It was also called the Hindi Association of the Pacific Coast. This party also brought out a letter named "Hindustan Ghadar" which was published in Urdu and Punjabi. This organization gave many great revolutionaries to India. The great leaders of the Ghadar Party, Sohan Singh Bhakna, Kartar Singh Sarabha, Lala Hardayal etc., inspired revolutionaries like Bhagat Singh. As soon as the First World War broke out, when other parties of India were supporting the British, the Ghadaris declared war against the British Raj.

Introduction

The great revolutionary Vishnu Ganesh Pingle was born on 2 January 1888 in a Marathi Brahmin family in Talegaon village of Poona. The youngest of nine siblings, Pingle grew up in a loving family and was admitted to the primary school in Talegaon Dabhade at the age of nine. In 1905, Pingle joined the Maharashtra Vidyalaya in Poona, which was then attached to the University of Bombay. While in school, Pingle came under the influence of the nationalist movement of the time, and V.D. Actively participated in the movement under Savarkar. In 1911, he came to America for engineering education, where he joined the College of Engineering at Sittel University. There he was guided by leaders like Lala Hardayal. He was friends with the great revolutionary Kartar Singh Sarabha. Vishnu was deeply aware of the fact that even if he became an engineer after studying and writing, then only the British would come in handy. It is better that they join the Ghadar Party and play their part in making India independent. He joined and became the head of publicity. On the call of the Ghadar Party, Vishnu Ganesh Pingale came to Calcutta from America carrying the torch of revolution and started increasing contact with the revolutionaries of Bengal. Seeing the golden opportunity to liberate the country by creating rebellion in the country, Vishnu Ganesh returned to India with the rest of his companions and British India. He started preparing to bring revolution in the armies. He met Sri Ras Behari Bose in Calcutta. He came to Punjab with Shachindranath evening. At that time, complete arrangements for military revolution were made in Punjab, Bengal and Uttar Pradesh, but due to the betrayal of a traitor, the whole plan failed. Vishnu Pingle was arrested by a person named Nadir Khan. He had ten bombs at the time of his arrest. He was tried and hanged on 17 November 1915 in the Central Jail Lahore. For the independence of India, the sons of Mother India who sacrificed their lives with laughter, unfortunately, the country has forgotten many of them.

Declared A Rebellion

Vishnu was also greatly influenced by the history of the American freedom struggle. In 1911, Pingle left Ausa for the United States. He kept the news of his impending departure from his family and informed his elder brother Keshavrao about his plans at the railway station. He arrived in the US via Hong Kong, and enrolled as a mechanical engineering student at the University of Washington in 1912. While in the United States, Pingle joined the Ghadar Party and became an activist. As World War I broke out in Europe, plans for attempted rebellion in India began between Germany, the Berlin Committee in Europe, and the Ghadarist movement in America. As part of the Ghadar Conspiracy, Satyen Bhushan Sen, Kartar Singh Sarabha, VG Pingle and a batch of Sikh revolutionaries sailed from America by SS Salamin in the second half of October 1914 to strengthen contacts with the Indian revolutionary movement. Pingle stayed in China for a few days to meet Satyen and the Ghadar leaders for future plans. As World War I broke out in Europe, plans for attempted rebellion in India began between Germany, the Berlin Committee in Europe, and the Ghadarist movement in America.Pingle, Kartar Singh and Satyen Sen reached Calcutta in November 1914. Satyen introduces Pingle and Kartar Singh to Jatin Mukherjee. The Calcutta Superintendent of Police, Charles Tegart, was informed about an attempt to molest some Sikh soldiers in the Dakshineswar gunpowder magazine. Calcutta Karmagogin was edited by Amarendra Chatterjee, on 18 November 1914, while investigating two bomb caps, Vishnu Ganesh Pingale and Sachin Sanyal were injured. In December 1914, Pingle arrived in Punjab, promising Bengali cooperation to the disgruntled migrants. In a meeting demands were made for revolution, plundering of the exchequer, seducing Indian soldiers, collection of weapons, preparation of bombs and commission of dacoities. Pingle returned to Calcutta with an invitation from Rash Behari to meet him at Benares to coordinate and finalize his plans. Jatin Mukherjee, Atulkrishna Ghosh, No Ren Bhattacharya left for Banaras (early January 1915). At a very important meeting, Rash Behari declared a rebellion, declaring: "Die for your country."

Bomb Blast Planning

By mid-January, Pingle was back in Amritsar with "Mote Babu" (Rash Behari); To avoid too many visitors, Rash Behari moved to Lahore after a fortnight. In both places he collected materials for making bombs and ordered 80 bomb cases to a foundry in Lahore. Its owner refused to execute the order due to doubts. Instead, ink pots were used as cases in many robberies. Confident of being able to rally the Indian soldiers, the plot of the rebellion took its final shape. The 23rd Cavalry in Punjab was to seize weapons and kill its officers during a roll call on 21 February. This was followed by a rebellion in the 26th Punjab, which marked the beginning of the rebellion, which resulted in the invasion of Delhi and Lahore. The Bengal revolutionaries contacted the Sikh soldiers stationed in Dhaka through credentials sent by the Sikh soldiers of Lahore and were successful in winning them over. The Bengal cell was to look for the Punjab Mail entering Howrah station the next day (which would have been canceled if Punjab had been annexed) and to strike immediately. However, the Punjab CID successfully infiltrated the conspiracy at the last minute through Kirpal Singh: but the whole plan failed due to the betrayal of a traitor. Here a Jamadar Nadir Khan betrayed him. He planned to trap Vishnu. Nadir told him that a Bengali revolutionary in Banaras had many bombs.

Death

Vishnu went to Benares with the traitor Nadir Khan to collect the bomb for the revolution. Nadir sent Vishnu from there with 10 bombs and informed the British. The British captured them. After this he was tried under the 'Lahore Conspiracy Case' and hanged on 16 November 1915 in Lahore.