Archive · 10 Aug 2026
Yogi Warns of Forces Dividing India Over Caste, Region, Language
On Sunday, the leader of a big Indian state gave a speech at a special event.
The event celebrated 101 years since a famous train action in 1925.
Back then, brave people in India stopped a British train to seize treasure that belonged to Indians.
They wanted the British to leave India so that India could be free.
Some of those brave people were executed, and others were sent to prison for life.
The leader said India became weak long ago because people inside the country were divided.
He said some people still try to divide India using caste, language and region.
He also said social media is being used to spread false stories about India.
He thanked the country's Prime Minister for honouring freedom fighters with memorials and postage stamps.
He asked everyone to be proud of their heroes and to put the nation first.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said India became enslaved because of internal divisions and conspiracies.
He warned that anti-national forces are still trying to divide India over caste, region and language, and are misusing social media to spread rumours.
He was speaking at the Centenary Celebration Programme marking 101 years of the Kakori Train Action at the Kakori Martyrs Memorial on Sunday.
He said post-Independence governments insulted the revolutionaries by calling the 1925 event the 'Kakori Dacoity Case' and by failing to build memorials or name institutions after them.
He credited Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government, in office since 2014, with restoring respect to freedom fighters and renaming the episode the 'Kakori Train Action'.
- Who
- Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, speaking in the presence of Deputy Chief Ministers Keshav Prasad Maurya and Brajesh Pathak
- What
- Warned against forces dividing India over caste, region and language and paid tribute to the revolutionaries of the 1925 Kakori Train Action
- When
- Sunday, on the 101st anniversary of the Kakori Train Action, which took place on 9 August 1925
- Where
- Kakori Martyrs Memorial in Kakori, near Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh
- Why
- To honour the heroes of India's freedom struggle and to caution that internal divisions and conspiracies that once enslaved India are being revived
Ruling government's view (Yogi Adityanath)
Post-Independence Congress-era practices (as criticised in the speech)
Naming of the 1925 event
Ruling government's view (Yogi Adityanath)
Calling the episode the 'Kakori Dacoity Case' insulted the revolutionaries; renaming it the 'Kakori Train Action' restored their dignity.
Post-Independence Congress-era practices (as criticised in the speech)
The event was long officially referred to as the 'Kakori Dacoity Case,' a label used by the British and continued by those who came to power after Independence.
Honouring freedom fighters
Ruling government's view (Yogi Adityanath)
Post-Independence governments neglected revolutionaries, built no memorials for them, kept them out of academic curricula and named schemes after a single family/dynasty; the current government since 2014 has expanded memorials and issued postage stamps in their names.
Post-Independence Congress-era practices (as criticised in the speech)
The speech alleges Congress leaders of that period practised law in cases that led to life sentences for revolutionaries such as Sachindra Nath Bakshi and Manmath Nath Gupta, and that Congress suspended and distanced itself from the Chauri Chaura incident in 1922.
- Speaker
- Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath
- Event
- Centenary Celebration Programme marking 101 years of the Kakori Train Action
- Date of Kakori Train Action
- 9 August 1925
- Venue
- Kakori Martyrs Memorial, Kakori (near Lucknow)
- Revolutionaries executed
- Pandit Ram Prasad Bismil, Rajendra Nath Lahiri, Ashfaqulla Khan and Thakur Roshan Singh
- Martyrdom
- Chandrashekhar Azad died fighting the British in Prayagraj, declaring 'Azad will always remain free'
- Renamed event
- 'Kakori Dacoity Case' was renamed 'Kakori Train Action' to restore respect
- Others present
- Deputy CMs Keshav Prasad Maurya and Brajesh Pathak, Minister Jaiveer Singh, Mayor Sushma Kharkwal and others