Barabanki, adjacent to Lucknow, the capital of Uttar Pradesh, actively participated in the freedom struggle. In those days, the youth here were passionate about freedom. Keeping this in mind, Subhash Chandra Bose organized a training camp for the youth in Daryabad village. Mahatma Gandhi himself visited here twice. The people revolted against the government to such an extent that the British poured kerosene in the well to control the situation. In the year 1930, when Mahatma Gandhi took Dandi march, many people of Barabanki district participated in it.
In the year 1942, the people here also participated in the campaign launched by the British in connection with the Quit India Movement. For this, the people here had to endure a lot of torture. Harakh area, ten km away from the district headquarters, is still famous in the name of the same revolutionaries. There were 18 people who garlanded the British officer. Apart from this, the post office and railway station were also looted. Including Shiva Narayan, Ramchander, Sri Krishna, Sriram, Makka Lal, Sarvajit Singh, Ram Chandra, Rameshwar, Kamata Prasad, Sarvajit, Kalludas, Kalicharan, Baijanath Prasad, Ramgopal, Ramkishun, Dwarika Prasad and Master etc.
In the play, the English officer was made to wear a necklace of shoes.
In the year 1972, the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Kamalapati Tripathi honored all of them by giving them a copper plate. Freedom fighter Ram Chandra’s sons Upendra and Bhupendra said that in 1942, an Englishman, Evie Hardy, was the DM here. To teach him a lesson, the villagers called him on the pretext of welcoming him, then performed a play in Awadhi in front of him. The actor, who played the role of Hardik in the play, was showered with shoe necklaces. The Englishman did not understand DM Hardy at that time.
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The British poured kerosene into the well.
The next day, when he came to know the reality of the drama, he sent the police to the village to create an uproar and threw the grains kept in people’s houses into the well and poured kerosene into the well. According to Rama Kanti Devi, wife of freedom fighter Ram Chandra, her husband along with his accomplices looted and set fire to the post office and Bindaura railway station. According to Chatan Singh, the chief representative of the village, the British sent 18 people to jail and fined them.
The penalty amount was refunded
However, after independence the fine was returned to Rs 5,000. A new Ayurvedic hospital has been built in Harakh with this amount. He said that today in independent India there is no one to lay flowers on the tombs of these fighters. Forest bushes have grown on the mausoleum of freedom fighter Babu Puttulal Verma. Villager Rampal said that the entrance gate of the village has been built in memory of all the freedom fighters. Everyone’s name is written on it.
