Saifuddin Kitchlew, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Indian revolutionary and politician
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Place of Birth: Amritsar, Punjab, India
About Saifuddin Kitchlew
- Saifuddin Kitchlew (15 January 1888 – 9 October 1963) was an Indian freedom fighter, barrister, politician and a critic of Pakistan Movement.
- A member of Indian National Congress, he first became Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee (Punjab PCC) head and later the General Secretary of the AICC in 1924.
- He is most remembered for the protests in Punjab after the implementation of Rowlatt Act in March 1919, after which on 10 April, he and another leader Satyapal, were secretly sent to Dharamsala.
- A public protest rally against their arrest and that of Gandhi, on 13 April 1919 at Jallianwala Bagh, Amritsar, led to the infamous Jallianwala Bagh massacre.
- He was awarded the Stalin Peace Prize (now known as Lenin Peace Prize) in 1952.
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