India is motherland of great leaders who has shown light to others and sacrificed their own life for the others. Whenever we talk about the great leaders who fought for freedom of India, we often talk about M. K Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru, Bhagat Singh and few others. But the list can not be completed without the name of Punjab Keshari  Lala Lajpat Rai.

He played an important role in making India free from British rule. Even before Gandhi and Nehru, Lala Lajpat Rai stressed self-reliance for Indians in the 1900 session of the National Congress.Rai was later one of the architects of the Swadeshi movement (now turned into Make-In-India) along with Mahatma Gandhi, Aurobindo Ghosh, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Bipin Chandra Pal and others.

Lala Lajpat Rai participated actively in the non-cooperation movement against British rule, which was started mainly to oppose the Rowlatt Act which was formed to jail any Indian who was threatening to cause damage to Britishers through their protests. For showing bravery in opposing this new legislation, in Punjab, Lala Lajpat Rai was given the title of 'Punjab Kesari' (the lion of Punjab).

Lala Lajpat Rai launched a peaceful procession to boycott arrival of the Simon Commission However, then Superintendent of Police, Scott ordered a 'lathi-charge' at all the activists to stop them and unfortunately Lala Lajpat Rai died on 17 November 1928.