Saifuddin Kitchlew

Deceased Person

1888 – 1963

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Who was Saifuddin Kitchlew?

Saifuddin Kitchlew was an Indian freedom fighter, barrister and an Indian Muslim nationalist leader. An Indian National Congress politician, he first became Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee head and later the General Secretary of the AICC in 1924. He is most remembered for the protests in Punjab after the implementation of Rowlatt Act in March 1919, after which on April 10, he and another leader Dr. Satya Pal, were secretly sent to Dharamsala. A public protest rally against their arrest and that of Gandhi, on April 13, 1919 at Jallianwala Bagh, Amritsar, led to the infamous Jallianwala Bagh massacre.

He was awarded the Stalin Peace Prize in 1952.

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Born
Jan 15, 1888
Amritsar
Children
Ethnicity
  • Kashmiri people
Nationality
  • India
Lived in
  • Amritsar
Died
Oct 9, 1963
Delhi

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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