MOHAMMED
ABDUL QADIR
Date
of Birth: 25th May, 1917 and Date of Death: 10th
September, 1943
Mohammed
Abdul Qadir was born on 25th
May, 1917 at Vakkam village in Trivandrum district of Kerala. He took part in anti British struggle at a
young age with unstinted zeal to liberate his mother land from the shackles of
Colonial rule. His father’s name was M.
Bavo Kanzu. Abdul Qadir went to Malaysia
in search of livelihood where he was attracted towards the attempts being made
for the emancipation of India from the yoke of British, under the guidance of
an old member of Ghadar Party Baba Hari Singh alias Baba Osman Khan. Baba
Osman Khan played a prominent role in the Indo-German conspiracy to smuggle
arms and ammunition into India during the First World War. Mohammed Abdul Qadir became a member of
Indian Independence League. Soon after,
the Japanese force occupied Shanghai during World War-II. Baba Osman Khan started several branches of
Indian Independence League in South Asian Countries with an aim to fight
against the British from outside India.
Baba Osman Khan wanted to turn the rank and file of Indian British Army
against the British rule. His aim was to
motivate Indian solders to join Indian National Army. He secured a handful of young men and trained
them in spying in a training camp set up at Penang. Qadir was one of the young men. He was well trained in Penang training
camp. Abdul Qadir became member of one
of the two teams dispatched secretly to India via Malasia and Thailand. The two teams comprising fourteen young
revolutionaries left for India. Abdul
Qadir was in five member team. When
Qadir and his team were trying to enter India through sea route, the British
spices spotted them. They arrested the
Qadir and his team members and shifted to Madras Central Jail. There these revolutionaries were tortured to
reveal secrets. At last Qadir and other
revolutionaries were sentenced to death after a so-called trail. Abdul Qadir kept shouting the slogans such as
‘Victory to Subhash Babu’, ‘British Government down down’ and that ‘Victory to
India was certain’, during the whole night preceding his execution day. Thus Colonial rulers executed a hero of
Indian Independence League, Mohammed Abdul Qadir in Madras jail on 10th September, 1943.
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