Union Home Minister unveils statue of Udham Singh

New Delhi, Mar 13: Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday unveiled a 10-feet tall statue of freedom fighter Sardar Udham Singh at the Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar.

The initiative was undertaken by the NGO International Sarab Kamboj Sabha, which had been demanding the installation of the statue for four decades.

It built at a cost of Rs 10 lakh, on March 13, the day Udham Singh killed Michael O’Dwyer in London in 1940.

Michael O'Dwyer was lieutenant governor of Punjab at the time of Jallianwala Bagh massacre in 1919.

Udham Singh had killed Michael O’Dwyer to take revenge of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre that took place on April 13, 1919, when the British-Indian army had fired at more than 10,000 unarmed men, women and children who had gathered there on the occasion of Vaisakhi.

The Central government has already announced a slew of programmes to commemorate the centenary of the massacre next year.