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Yogendra Shukla

(1896 – 1960) – (Bihar)

Yogendra Shukla (Aged 64) was born in 1896 in Muzaffarpur, Bihar, India. He was an Indian nationalist and freedom fighter who served in the Cellular Jail (Kalapani) and was one of the founders of the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association (HSRA).

Shukla was a senior associate of Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Datta and had even trained them. He had to serve prison terms for a total of more than sixteen and a half years for his revolutionary activities. During the Quit India Movement launched by Mahatma Gandhi in August 1942, Yogendra Shukla scaled the wall of Hazaribagh Central Jail.

At that time, Jayaprakash Narayan was ill, and Shukla walked a distance of about 124 kilometres to Gaya with Narayan on his shoulders. Yogendra Shukla was later lodged in Buxar Jail and kept in bar fetters for three years. In March 1944, he launched a hunger strike in the Buxar Jail. He passed away by 19 November 1960, in Bihar, India.