February 1, 2010 5:29 PM

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Campaign underway in Pakistan to rename Lahore's Bradlaugh Hall after Bhagat Singh

A campaign is underway to resurrect Indian revolutionary Bhagat Singh's alma mater in Pakistan and rename it after him. <br/><br/>Bradlaugh Hall, once a premier educational institute in Lahore that Singh attended, is in ruins today but efforts are underway to breathe life into it. At the centre of the campaign is Saeeda Diep, head of the Institute for Secular Studies in Lahore.<br/><br/>Diep aims to restore the Hall to its pre-1947 glory and turn it into a school with a museum dedicated to the independence movement with special focus on Bhagat Singh.<br/><br/>Apart from renaming the institute, Diep wants Shadman Square, the place where Singh was hanged, to be renamed after him. She has petitioned authorities in this regard. <br/><br/>On March 23, 1931, Bhagat Singh and his comrades were executed for shooting British Deputy Superintendent of Police J P Saunders in response to the police beating of veteran independence activist Lala Lajpat Rai. The founder of Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, is known to have defended Bhagat Singh in the Indian Central Assembly in 1929.

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