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Shouldn't BJP authenticate what it posts?

Indian National Congress in remembrance of Shaheed Bhagat Singh on 23 rd March, the day Bhagat Singh was hanged in 1931 shared an info-graphic which differentiated Bhagat Singh from Savarkar, founder of RSS. Bhagat Singh, who gave up his life for the nation has been described by Panditji in his autobiography as attractive, intellectual and remarkably calm and peaceful young man. He was just 23 years old when he was hung by the British government. Below is the excerpt from the autobiography of Panditji describing Shaheed Bhagat Singh. “The Legislative Assembly, as I have said before, was becoming a somnolent affair and few people took interest in its dreary activities. A rude awakening came to it one day when Bhagat Singh and B.K. Dutt threw two bombs from the visitors’ gallery on to the floor of the House. No one was seriously hurt, and probably the bombs were intended, as was stated by the accused later, to make a noise and create a stir, and not to injure. …I saw Bh