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Lala Lajpatrai Deported

 

                                 THE sympathetic administration of Mr. Morley has for the present attained its records; – but for the present only. Lala Lajpatrai has been deported out of British India. The fact is its own comment. The telegram goes on to say that indignation meetings have been forbidden for four days.  Indignation meetings? The hour for speeches and fine writing is past. The bureaucracy has thrown down the gauntlet. We take it up. Men of the Punjab! Race of the lion! Show these men who would stamp you into the dust that for one Lajpat they have taken away, a hundred Lajpats will arise in his place. Let them hear a hundred times louder your war-cry-Jai Hindusthan.

Bande Mataram, May 10, 1907

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