DNA Special: Ahead of 75th Independence Day, know why UP government has renamed 'Kakori Kand' as 'Kakori Train Action'

In the year 1920, Mahatma Gandhi started the non-cooperation movement against the British. When this movement was at its peak, on February 4, 1922, the Chauri-Chaura incident happened in Gorakhpur. Some protesters involved in the non-cooperation movement had torched a police station here in which 22 policemen were killed. Hurt by this incident, Mahatma Gandhi withdrew his non-cooperation movement.

The non-cooperation movement inspired the youth of India a lot. The youth had shown the dream of a free India in this movement. But when Mahatma Gandhi withdrew the movement itself, despair spread among the youth. After Gandhiji's decision, some young revolutionaries formed the Hindustan Republican Association. And in this, it was decided that now arms will have to be taken up against the British.

In those days it was difficult to arrange money to buy weapons. That is why on August 9, 1925, a team of 10 revolutionaries gave the biggest challenge to the British.

These revolutionaries stopped a passenger train from Saharanpur to Lucknow and looted the British treasure kept in it. It was a very revolutionary step against the British at that time. Even today it is taught in history books as the Kakori incident. But should this heroism of the revolutionaries against the British be called 'Kand'? 

We feel that calling it a scandal is not correct at all. Therefore, now the Uttar Pradesh government has decided that this revolutionary incident will not be called the Kakori incident but Kakori Train Action.

A team of Zee News reached the same Kakori station where revolutionaries like Ramprasad Bismil, Ashfaq Ulla Khan, and Chandrashekhar Azad had carried out this Kakori Train Action. This reporting will tell you the extent to which our revolutionaries were ready to go to liberate the country.

This is Kakori, it is remembered for the courage with which 10 revolutionaries including Chandrashekhar Azad and Ram Prasad Bismil shook the British rule. On August 9, 1925, it was here that the revolutionaries took back the money looted from the Indians from the English treasury.

In the year 1922, when Gandhiji withdrew the non-cooperation movement due to the Chauri-Chaura incident of Gorakhpur, then the people of the country were disappointed. Disappointed by withdrawing the movement, the young revolutionaries formed a party and decided that they would now join the British and will take up arms against the British and will use the British treasury to buy weapons

The revolutionaries of the Hindustan Republican Association, led by freedom fighter Shachindranath Sanyal, stopped the passenger train coming from Saharanpur to Lucknow on the evening of August 9, 1925, at Kakori and looted 4601 rupees included in the treasury from the possession of British soldiers.

Historians have always called the incident of robbing the British treasury Kakori incident but this time the UP government changed it and named it Kakori Train Action and paid respect to the martyrs.