The activities of the Swaraj Party had induced the British
government to review the working of the diarchy system introduced by the
Montague- Chelmsford Reforms of 1919 and to report as to what extent a
representative government could be introduced in India.
The British government
appointed the Simon Commission in Nov., 1927 for the task. All members of this
commission were Europeans (Whites). Indian political leaders felt insulted and
decided to boycott the commission.
Wherever the commission went there were
cries of ‘Simon Go Back’. It was
while leading a demonstration against the Simon Commission in Lahore that a
fatal lathi- blow was dealt to Lala
Lajpat Rai.
It was his death Bhagat Singh and his comrades were
seeking to avenge when they killed a white police officials, Saunders, in Dec. 1928.
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