Episode 226
from BHARAT NAMA
On 13th Sept, 1929, a year and half before Bhagat Singh trio, Lahore Conspiracy Case, claimed another victim viz Jatin Das. Subhas Bose, who admired Jatin Das wrote, Jatin Das was twenty-five at the time of his death. While a student he had joined the Non-Cooperation Movement in 1921 and had spent several years in prison. At the time of the Calcutta Congress in 1928 and after, he had taken a leading part in organising and training volunteers (pp 179-80). In June, arrestees of Lahore Conspiracy Case decided to go on hunger strike to protest against atrocities. Though Jatin Das did not initiate that hunger strike, nonetheless he stopped them from deserting. The hunger strike aroused intense agitation in the country, but little softened the heart of the British authorities. He fasted for 63 days.
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