Saifuddin Kitchlew (January 15, 1888 - October 9, 1963) was a freedom fighter, barrister and
an Indian
Muslim nationalist leader.
An Indian
National Congress politician,
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 April 10, he and another leader Dr. Satya Pal, were
secretly sent to Dharamsala . A public protest rally against their arrest
and that of Gandhi, on April 13, 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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