apr 18, 1930 - Chittagong Armoury Raid by Surya Sen. Apr, 1930

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The Chittagong Armoury Raid had been planned by Surya Sen.
Chittagong Armoury Raid:
The Chittagong armoury raid took place on 18 April 1930 and was an attempt at raiding the armoury of police and auxiliary forces, led by freedom fighter Surya Sen.
The volunteers he gathered were part of a revolutionary group of nationalists who believed in using force to fight the British.
The original plan was to capture two armouries in Chittagong, subsequently destroying the telegraph and telephone office.
The group would then take hostages from the European Club, as most of its members were involved in the colonial government in some form.
Amongst these volunteers were two incredible women: Pritilata Waddedar and Kalpana Datta.


Surya Sen:
Surya Sen, also called Surjya Sen was an Indian revolutionary who was active in the Indian independence movement against British rule in India.
In 1918, he was elected as President of the Indian National Congress's Chittagong branch.
Sen was known for recruiting a group of young, intense and passionate revolutionaries known as the Chittagong group including Ananta Singh, Ganesh Ghosh and Lokenath Bal, who fought against the British stationed in Chittagong.
Surya Sen was a leader among these revolutionaries, a former school teacher fondly known as ‘Master Da’, from Naopoara in Chittagong (in modern-day Bangladesh).
His first serious intellectual encounter with the Indian freedom movement came during his stint as an undergraduate at Berhampore College in 1916.
Inspired by one of his teachers, he joined the Anushilan Samity, a revolutionary organisation founded by another Bengali revolutionary – Sarat Chandra Basu, which propounded violence as the means for ending British rule in India.
He also worked closely with Chittaranjan Das, another freedom fighter who led the Non-Cooperation Movement in Bengal, and a strong advocate of non-violence.
While this was going on, the real change came after Sen was arrested for two years from 1926 to 1928 for anti-British activities.

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