Nation remembers Lala Lajpat Rai on his 145th Birth Anniversary today. A leading personality in the India's struggle for freedom and known as Punjab Kesari, Lala Ji was also the founder of Punjab National Bank and Lakshmi Insurance Company. A lawyer by profession and an Arya samaji by belief Lala Lajpat Rai led a procession against the Simon Commission in 1928, where he sustained injury on his chest during a lathi charge from which he could not recover and later died . He had said that every blow on his body would prove to be a nail into the coffin of British Imperialism.