Previous Year Question
Who amongst the following revolutionaries refused to drink the given milk on the eve of his execution and said:
“Now, I shall take my mother’s milk only.”?
Rajguru
Ashfaqulla
Ramprasad Bismil
Bhagat Singh
Correct Answer: C
Detailed Solution
The statement is associated with the great revolutionary Ram Prasad Bismil. He was one of the leading revolutionaries of the Hindustan Republican Association (HRA) and one of the principal figures associated with the Kakori action of 1925.
On 9 August 1925, a revolutionary action was carried out near Kakori to seize government money being transported by train. The British Government subsequently made extensive arrests and prosecuted Bismil and several other revolutionaries.
Ram Prasad Bismil, Ashfaqulla Khan, Roshan Singh and Rajendra Nath Lahiri were sentenced to death.
Bismil was hanged in the Gorakhpur District Jail on 19 December 1927. On the evening before his execution, when milk was offered to him, he declined it and said—
“Now, I shall take my mother’s milk only.”
The statement is associated with his deep emotional bond with his mother, Moolmati Devi, and his spirit of sacrifice for the motherland.
Here, Ashfaqulla Khan is an important distractor because he too was executed on 19 December 1927 in the Kakori case, but at Faizabad Jail. The statement about refusing milk, however, is associated with Ram Prasad Bismil.
Similarly, Bhagat Singh and Rajguru belonged to a different revolutionary episode; they were executed along with Sukhdev in Lahore Jail on 23 March 1931.