Pranaam to Rash Bihari Bose on his vardhantiThe British Government, which was very much scared by the growing
nationalist and revolutionary activities in Bengal, decided to change
the capital from Calcutta to Delhi. To break the political backbone of
Bengal, Delhi was made the seat of the Viceroy instead of Calcutta. On
23rd December 1912, Lord Hardinge was entering Delhi in state with great
pomp and show. Rash Behari and his
colleagues decided to smite the might of the British Government in the
very heart of the new capital. A plan was hatched to throw a bomb on the
viceregal procession and Rash Behari personally undertook the task.
Describing the scene of the daring incident, Swatantrya Veer Savarkar says: " On the breast of our Motherland, a carpet of national humiliation was spread out and dancers moved on it. For the nation, it was a funeral procession. Naturally when others in Chandni Chowk showered flowers and coconuts, the representatives of those who had felt the insult, hurled a bomb which routed the elephant, killed one of the A.D.C'.s and gave a blood-bath to the Viceroy. For five minutes everybody believed that Hardinge was dead. Verily the triumphant procession was turned into a funeral."
Describing the scene of the daring incident, Swatantrya Veer Savarkar says: " On the breast of our Motherland, a carpet of national humiliation was spread out and dancers moved on it. For the nation, it was a funeral procession. Naturally when others in Chandni Chowk showered flowers and coconuts, the representatives of those who had felt the insult, hurled a bomb which routed the elephant, killed one of the A.D.C'.s and gave a blood-bath to the Viceroy. For five minutes everybody believed that Hardinge was dead. Verily the triumphant procession was turned into a funeral."
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