KUNWAR SINGH

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Context: BJP leader has planned to organise the birth anniversary of the 1857 uprising hero and freedom fighter Veer Kunwar Singh at his birth place in Jagdishpur of Bhojpur as part of the Centre’s Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav programme to celebrate 75 years of Independence.

Veer Kunwar Singh

• He played a key role in the 1857 uprising against the British East India Company.
• Belonging to a family of the Ujjainiya clan of the Parmar Rajputs of Jagdishpur, Kunwar Singh led the fight against the British in Bihar.
• He was nearly 80 and his health was failing but that did not stop him from joining the fight for freedom.
• He was an expert in the art of guerilla warfare, his tactics left the British puzzled.
• Kunwar Singh was assisted by both his brother Babu Amar Singh and commander-in-chief Hare Krishna Singh. Some argue that the latter was the reason behind Kunwar Singh’s initial military success.
• On 23 April 1966, India issued a commemorative stamp to honour the freedom fighter.
• Bihar established the Veer Kunwar Singh University, Ara in 1992.
• In 2017, the Veer Kunwar Singh Setu, also known as the Arrah–Chhapra Bridge, was inaugurated to connect north and south Bihar.
• In 2018, to mark the 160th death anniversary of Kunwar Singh, the Bihar government put up his statue at Hardinge Park and officially renamed it Veer Kunwar Singh Azadi Park.

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