Saifuddin Kitchlew

Saifuddin Kitchlew
Born(1888-01-15)15 January 1888
Amritsar, Punjab, British India
Died9 October 1963(1963-10-09) (aged 75)
New Delhi, India
NationalityIndian
Occupation(s)Independence activist, politician

Saifuddin Kitchlew (15 January 1888 – 9 October 1963) was an Indian independence activist, barrister, politician and later a leader of the peace movement. A member of Indian National Congress, he first became Punjab Provincial Congress Committee (Punjab PCC) head and later the General Secretary of the All India Congress Committee in 1924. He is most remembered for the protests in Punjab after the implementation of Rowlatt Act in March 1919, after which on 10 April, he and another leader Satyapal, were secretly sent to Dharamsala. A public protest rally against their arrest and that of Gandhi, on 13 April 1919 at Jallianwala Bagh, Amritsar, led to the infamous Jallianwala Bagh massacre.[1][2][3] He was also a founding member of Jamia Millia Islamia. He was awarded the Stalin Peace Prize (now known as Lenin Peace Prize) in 1952.[4]

  1. ^ "From the Land of Paradise to the Holy City". The Tribune. 26 January 2006.
  2. ^ Nazir Gilani, Syed (14 April 2019). "Jallianwala Bagh Massacre of 1919 and Kashmir Connection". Daily Times. Retrieved 2 September 2019.
  3. ^ Mahmud, Sayed Jafar (1994). Pillars of modern India, 1757-1947. APH Publishing. p. 40. ISBN 81-7024-586-9.
  4. ^ Great Soviet Encyclopedia (in Russian) (2nd ed.). Moscow: Sovetskaya Enciklopediya. 1953. vol. 24, p. 366.