Chittu Pandey

Chittu Pandey (10 May 1865 – 1946), popularly referred to as the Sher-e Ballia (Lion of Ballia), was an Indian independence activist and revolutionary.

Pandey was born in Rattuchak, a village in Ballia District of Uttar Pradesh in a Bhumihar Brahmin family.

A distinguished independence activist, he led the Quit India Movement in Ballia; described as the "Tiger of Ballia" by Jawaharlal Nehru and Subhas Chandra Bose,^[1] he headed the National Government declared and established on 19 August 1942 for a few days before it was suppressed by the British. The parallel government succeeded in getting the Collector to hand over power and release all the arrested Congress leaders.^[2] But within a week, soldiers marched in and the leaders had to flee. He used to call himself a Gandhian. There is a crossroads also on the name of Chittu Pandey.

References[edit]

↑ "August Kranti : Ballia". Archived from the original on 27 October 2009. Retrieved 8 October 2010.
↑ Book- India's Struggle for Independence by Bipan Chandra

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[1] "August Kranti : Ballia". Archived from the original on 27 October 2009. Retrieved 8 October 2010.

[2] Book- India's Struggle for Independence by Bipan Chandra

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