LUCKNOW, Dec.17, 2023 (TBINN)
Sagar Sharma, one of the two men who jumped into the Lok Sabha chamber and set off smoke canisters, maintained for some years a diary in which he often wrote “Inquilab Zindabad” on top of the page and at one stage talked about “dying for the nation”.
“I have given my life to the nation. I have taken a step towards freedom. Now the turn will come to die for the nation. I have already rested a lot,” he wrote in Hindi on June 13, 2015.
Sagar Sharma, aged 28, a resident of Ramnagar in Uttar Pradesh’s capital Lucknow, maintained the diary from 2015 to 2021, keeping it along with his books that included crime novels and a Hindi translation of Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf, police officials said.
Family members of Sagar Sharma gave the diary to local police who then handed it over to their Delhi counterparts investigating Wednesday’s security breach in Parliament.
The diary entries are not regular. It included his thoughts on society, poems and couplets by revolutionaries and freedom fighters. In one such entry, Sagar Sharma wrote “Sarfaroshi ki tamanna ab hamaare dil mein hai, dekhna hai zor kitna baazu-e-qaatil mein hai” — a couplet that was made famous by Ram Prasad Bismil as a war cry during the British rule.
On February 6, 2021, Sagar Sharma wrote, “Ghar se vida lene ka samay najdik aa gaya hai (It’s almost time to bid adieu to home). On one hand, there is a fear and on the other the fiery determination to go through anything.”
“I have waited every moment of five years for the time when I will move towards my duty. The strongest person in the world is not one who knows how to snatch but the one who can give up everything,” he added.
In a diary’s entry on June 12, 2015, Sharma wrote, “The modesty of daughters is being looted in the open here. Then why are we sitting patiently with folded hands?”
The very next day, he wrote about giving his life for the nation.
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