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SETH SANT
RAM
(Freedom Fighter)
He
was born at Lahore in 1889. His father, Jamiat Rai Seth, was
in Government service. Sant Ram received his early education
in Government High School, Kasur.
From
1914 onwards Sant Ram was in the thick of the fight for
India’s freedom. In 1916 he organized a branch of B.G. Tilak’s
Home Rule League in Amritsar and also set up in the same year
a Congress Committee for the city. In the agitation against
Rowlatt Bills he was most active and in the company of Dr.
Kitchlew and Dr. Satyapal conducted a hurricane propaganda
campaign through the Punjab towns and cities inciting the
people to rise against the Bills and to strengthen the
agitation. When in 1919 the Indian National Congress held its
annual session at Amritsar, he was member of the Reception
Committee organized to host the session. Soon after he was
elected Secretary of the Amritsar City Congress Committee, and
in that capacity he actively participated in the
non-cooperation movement. On account of that he was arrested
and sentenced to three years’
imprisonment.
Later,
Sant Ram was one of the chief figures in the anti-Simon
Commission demonstrations organized in the Punjab. He was
General Secretary of the first ‘War Council’ organized in 1930
at Amritsar with Dr. Kitchlew as its dictator. In 1931 he was
arrested and sentenced to a two years’ term for taking part in
the Civil Disobedience
movement.
During
the disturbances of 1947 Sant Ram saved hundreds of Muslims in
distress and supplied them with rations even at great risk to
his own life. He helped Miss. Mridula Sarabhai in the recovery
of abducted women. He also rendered great help in organizing
refugee camps in Amritsar on that occasion. Earlier, he had
worked for sufferers of Bihar and Quetta
earthquakes.
Source: chakdephate.com
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