- Kakori Train Action, 100th anniversary

August 2025 marks the centenary of the conspiracy.

9th August, 1925 train robbery, by Ram Prasad Bismil, and Ashfaqulla Khan, Chandrasekhar Azad, Rajendra Nath Lahiri, Thakur Roshan Singh part of Hindustan Republican Association (HRA)

Stopped the 8 Down Saharanpur Lucknow passenger train near Kakori (a village near Lucknow) and looted the British government treasury.

Aim was to

acquire funds for armed struggle
send a defiant political message colonial exploitation

British authorities responded massive crackdown, more than 40 people arrested and tried

Severe sentences for Bismil, Ashfaqulla Khan, Rajendra Lahiri, Roshan singh were sentenced to death and executed by the end of 1927 while other received long prison terms .

Chandrasekhar Azad evaded capture and continued the fight until his death in 1931.

This eventually led to the reorganisation of HRA into Hindustan Socialist Republican Association (HSRA) in 1928.

Friendship of Pandit Ram Prasad Bismil (devout Hindu) and Ashfaqulla Khan (devout muslim), shows Hindu Muslim unity.

While awaiting execution, Bismil penned a heartfelt letter urging his countrymen to uphold Hindu Muslim unity explicitly framing it as the true homage to their sacrifice , even though the colonial government acknowledged Ashfaqulla as Ram Prasad's right hand.

Bismil disproved the notion, "Muslims aren't trust worthy. No one should dare say Hindus and Muslims cannot trust each other in the fight for India's liberty."

Bismil's last wish to establish a Hindu Muslim unity throughout