One end of the Kakori incident also connects to Palamu in Jharkhand. Ashfaq Ullah Khan, the great revolutionary of Kakori incident, worked in Daltonganj for ten months by hiding his identity. At that time it was a part of Bihar.
On the night of September 26, 1925, when arrests were made across the country in connection with the Kakori incident, Ashfaq escaped by throwing dust in the eyes of the police. First of all he went to Nepal. After staying there for a few days, he came to Kanpur and stayed for two days at Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi’s Pratap Press. From there he came to Palamu via Banaras.
Stayed here for ten months. He got a job as Lala Ji of Mathura in Daltonganj city. One day when the rift broke out, Ashfaq took a train from Daltonganj to Delhi and stayed at the house of an old friend of his in his district Shahjahanpur. But the friend betrayed him and then he was arrested.
After this, he was hanged on 19 December 1927 in Faizabad. At that time his age was only 27 years. Mahavir Verma of Palamu has written, Ashfaq Ullah Khan, the main accused in the Kakori conspiracy case, worked in Palamu District Council for a long time. He was secretly engaged in the organization of revolutionaries. At that time Palamu was a stronghold of revolutionaries. During his stay here, he described himself as a Kayastha of Mathura. Here he also learned Bengali language.
On 9 August 1925, revolutionaries carried out the Kakori incident. The British government’s treasury was looted from the train to buy weapons in the war against British rule.
Ten members of Hindustan Republican Association carried out this incident. This was planned in an emergency meeting held at the house of Pandit Ram Prasad Bismil on 8 August and the very next day on 9 August 1925, a total of 10 people under the leadership of Bismil boarded the Saharanpur-Lucknow passenger train from Hardoi City Railway Station. ,
Bismil, Ashfaq Ullah Khan, Murari Sharma and Banwari Lal from Shahjahanpur, Rajendra Lahiri from Auraiya, Sachindranath Keshav Chakraborty, Chandrashekhar Azad and Manmathanath Gupta and Mukundhi Lal.
On August 9, 1925, the train was stopped under the leadership of Ashfaq Ullah Khan. This incident took place at Kakori railway station in Lucknow, which was named Kakori incident.
The government engaged the notorious Scotland Yard to investigate. After a month of hard work, many revolutionaries were arrested in a single night.
On 26 September 1925, Pandit Ramprasad Bismil was also arrested. But Ashfaq fled to Banaras, from where he went to Bihar i.e. Daltonganj.
He was born on 22 October 1900 in Kadankhail Jalalnagar locality near the railway station in Shahjahanpur. His father’s name was Mohammad Shafiqullah Khan.
Ashfaq was also a great poet like Ram Prasad Bismil. His Urdu surname was Smiling. Apart from Urdu, he also wrote articles and poems in Hindi and English.
