Plan To Rename Lahore's Shadman Chowk After Bhagat Singh Scrapped

In a written response submitted to the Lahore high court (LHC) on Friday by assistant advocate general Asghar Leghari, serious allegations were levelled against the freedom fighter.

“A proposed plan of the city district government Lahore to name Shadman Chowk after Bhagat Singh and place his statue there has been scrapped in light of an observation submitted by Commodore (retd.) Tariq Majeed,” the metropolitan corporation of Lahore said in a reply to a contempt petition filed by Bhagat Singh Memorial Foundation Pakistan chairman Imtiaz Rasheed Qureshi in the LHC.

It said Majeed, engaged by the government in a committee to rename Shadman Chowk after Singh, in his observations claimed that Singh “was not a revolutionary but a criminal, in today’s terms he was a terrorist, he killed a British police officer, and for this crime, he was hanged along with two accomplices”.