40 SOCIAL SCIENTIST 88 Manifesto issued by the N B Sabha in 1929, Tuvakaranti, July 1972, New Delhi,. p 10. 84 NAI, 4/20/1931. The Bhagat Singh Appeal Committees were reported from 1) Kasur, Dist Lahore 2) Moga, Dist Ferozepore 3) Ferozpore 4) Sialkot 5) Ludhiana 6) Lyallpur 7) Phagwara 8) Poilga, Dist Jullunder 9) Banga, Dist Jullunder, 10) Batala, Dist Gurdaspur \\) Okara, Dist Montgomery 12) Gujaranwala 13) Amritsar, 14) Jaranwala, Dist Lyallpur 15) Sheikhupura. 85 In Lahore, Sodhi Pindi Das was a leading worker and in Amritsar, Gurdit Singh and Ahmad Din were its active members. 36 NAI, 18/1/1931, Fortnightly report on internal political situation for February 1931. 87 Ibid. 88 Ibid. Ahmad Din, a leader of the Sabha, had warned the leaders at Amritsar that if they did not strive for the release of the revolutionaries, the leaders and ordinary political prisoners, on their release from jail, would be received with black flags like the Simon Commission and they will be greeted with the cries of "Gandhi Go Back. ^ and "Go Back Jawaharlal". 89 The Tribune, March 11, 1931. 40 Ibid. 41 Ghaman Lal Azad, Revolutionary Movement in India, Delhi, pp 40-41. 42 The Tribune, April 9, 1931. 43 Pattabhi Sitaramayya, History of the Indian National Congress, Vol 1, Bombay, 1946,. p442. 44 Ibid, p 456. ^ NAI, file 136/1931. 4® Ibid. 47 Netaji Speaks to the Nation, Lahore, 1946, p 84. 48 Ibid. 49 Ibid, pp 84-85. The programme by which he believed freedom could be achieved was (1) organization of peasants and workers; (2) socialist programme, organization of youth into a volunteer corps under strict discipline; (3) abolition of the caste system and the eradication of social and religious superstitions of all kinds; (4) organization of women*s associations for getting our womenfolk to accept the new gospel and work out the nevv programme; (5) intensive programme for the boycott of the British goods; (6) country-wide propaganda for explaining the new cult and for organizing the new party; (7) creation of new literature for propagating the new cult and programme. 60 A K Ghosh was a close associate of Bhagat Singh and a co-accused in the Lahore Conspiracy Case. Ghosh was acquitted by the court. 51 Ajoy Kumar Ghosh, Bhagat Singh and his Comrades, 1945, pp 1-3. 52 Ibid. ^ Ibid. 54 Among the leaders who took this initiative were Satyapal, Baba Nihal Singh, Pindi Das Mehta, Anand Kishore, S Gopal Singh Qaumi, Sardar Sardul Singh Cavishar, Maulvi Abdul Ghani, Sar'dar Kishan Singh an4 Mohammad Alamand. 58 NAI 4/12/1931. 5® Ibid.