Bhagat Singh Speaks in 2025: A Spectre Haunts the Rulers of India!

Posted on 8th December, 2025 (GMT 06:15 hrs)

ABSTRACT

This manifesto—framed as Bhagat Singh’s return in 2025—condemns the erosion of democracy, secularism, and socialism in contemporary India under the BJP-led oligarchy. It denounces crony capitalism, authoritarian governance, and the DHFL scam as symbols of systemic exploitation. Calling for reason, scientific temper, and constitutional duty, it urges India’s oppressed citizens to resist through coordinated legal action, peaceful yet militant mass mobilization, and digital activism. The message rejects silence, warns against authoritarian decay, and invokes revolutionary solidarity to reclaim justice, dignity, and democratic rights.

In Continuation With

“Our sole purpose was “to make the deaf hear” and to give the heedless a timely warning. Others have as keenly felt as we have done, and from under the seeming stillness of the sea of Indian humanity, a veritable storm is about to break out. We have only hoisted the “danger-signal” to warn those who are speeding along without heeding the grave dangers ahead.”

— Shaheed-e-Azam Bhagat Singh and B. K. Dutt’s Joint Court Statement, 6th June, 1929 (During the Assembly Bomb Trial)

I, Bhagat Singh, write this statement as a reminder of a promise left incomplete. In my time, we resisted an Empire that believed repression could silence a nation; today, you confront a power that believes opacity, impunity, and fear can numb the public conscience. We acted not out of hatred for individuals but out of love for a people denied dignity. Our struggle was to awaken, to shake a sleeping country into recognizing its own strength. If I speak again now, it is only to tell you this: tyranny does not always wear a foreign face. It sometimes grows from within, carried by those who mistake authority for virtue and obedience for peace. When justice is throttled and truth is buried beneath propaganda, the responsibility of resistance falls once more upon the shoulders of ordinary citizens. I address you so that you remember—India was not dreamed into freedom; it was fought for with courage, clarity, sacrifice, and the resolve to expose injustice in whatever form it appears.

Comrades, Workers, Peasants, Youth, and the Robbed Masses of This Betrayed Land!

I, Bhagat Singh, rise again from the gallows of 1931—not as a ghost of vengeance, but as the unquenchable fire of reason and revolution that no empire, no tyranny, can extinguish. The chains of British imperialism are broken, yet behold: a new yoke descends upon our people, forged in the fires of crony-monopoly corporate greed and saffron-robed reactionism. The spectre of revolution walks once more, haunting the corridors of power in Delhi, where the BJP’s mandarins—those modern-day satraps of exploitation—tremble at the echo of our footsteps. For I have returned, not to whisper prayers to silent gods (for I remain the atheist who mocked the heavens with my spirit to stand up with a spine), but to thunder the truth: India is in chains again!

This is no mere “reform”—it is an undeclared emergency, a stealthy strangulation of the soul we fought to free.

Democracy? Weakened to a hollow shell, where votes are stolen like rupees from the pockets of the poor—counted in shadows, mandates twisted by machines of deceit, electoral thrones built on the graves of the people’s will.

Secularism? Eroded by the poison of communal frenzy, where the unity of toiling millions is rent asunder for the feast of the few profiteers.

Socialism? Betrayed utterly, as the toils of labourers and peasants swell the coffers of monopolists, while the masses starve under the banner of “development.” I transformed our Hindustan Republican Association into the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association that day in the ruins of Feroz Shah Kotla because I had come to believe, with every fibre of my being, that it is internationalist socialism, the dream of a world federation for humanity—and not nation-statist jingoism—that alone can be the true emancipator of the oppressed.

Dissent? Criminalized by new laws that ape the black acts of colonial dread—clauses sharpened like bayonets to silence the cry of the oppressed, turning inquiry into “sedition” and protest into peril.

And in this cauldron of corruption boils the DHFL scam—a vile emblem of the rot! Not accident, comrades, but design: the savings of honest workers, the dreams of families, looted by financier-vampires in league with the State. Regulators slumber in the lap of power; courts drag their feet like chained elephants; rating-agencies and trustees peddle lies for gold. This is no isolated theft—it is the anatomy of the system, where bourgeois exploiters and their political puppets collude to bleed the toiling masses dry. The BJP-RSS’s regime, heir to no freedom struggle but to the cowardice of colonialist collaboration, shields these brigands while the people perish! It is the British policy of Divide-and-Rule that has reincarnated through the Sangh in BJP’s Bharat! This is indeed the very recurrence of the system to polarize the masses and divide them amidst themselves so they cannot fight against the common oppressor: moribund capitalism!

Yet mark this, my comrades: the idea of India I envisioned was no theocracy of blind faith, no bazaar of bourgeois plunder. It was rational, egalitarian, secular, socialist—a republic where scientific temper dispels superstition, where humanism binds us beyond caste or creed, where the worker’s sweat commands the wealth of nations. As I once visualized from the cells of Lahore, scorning the gods of the oppressors: The day shall come when… mankind shall be free from the thraldom of superstition. Today, that day is betrayed by those who exalt reaction over reason, hierarchy over equality. The RSS ideology—born not in the fire of anti-colonial revolt, but in the shade of British benevolence and Victorian Morality—rejects this vision utterly. It spurns atheism and scientific temper for mythical fetishes; it fractures secular brotherhood with majoritarian venom; it mocks socialism by enthroning corporate feudalism. Such ideas, comrades, are the very antithesis of our martyrs’ blood—philosophical treason against the Constitution we must defend!

Hear now your Constitution’s clarion call in Article 51A(h): “To develop the scientific temper, humanism, and the spirit of inquiry and reform.” This is no pious platitude—it is our revolutionary mandate! To probe the darkness of power with the lantern of reason; to reform the injustices that fester under authoritarian guise; to humanize a society brutalized by exploitation. The BJP’s rulers, with their cult of personality and suppression of truth, violate this sacred duty. But we, the people, shall fulfill it—with the unyielding spirit that toppled empires!

The Masses Must Organize! The Revolution Demands Action!

Three paths lie open to you, the DHFL victims and all oppressed India—paths of the intellect, the body, and the collective voice. Forge them as one, or as circumstance decrees, but advance without cease!

I. Options

OPTION A — INDIAN JUDICIARY (Courts as Battlefield)

Comrades, if you must step into the Indian judiciary, then step not as petitioners, but as accusers—armed with truth, fortified by courage. Wield the law’s faltering sword alongside the thunder of the people’s conscience. Today the courts may bend under executive collusion—unreliable as a traitor’s oath—yet even a compromised forum can become a battlefield if the people stand behind it like a storm.

Do not forget our history.

We once walked into the enemy’s court not begging for mercy, but to turn their own halls into platforms of revolution. We will hang the capitalists with the ropes they sell us!
When we of the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association faced imperial judges, we did not plead innocence.
We declared ideals.
We exposed tyranny.
We transformed every hearing into a public trial of the State itself.

The courtroom—built to silence us—became a megaphone.
The charges they framed became our manifesto.
The gallows they prepared became a perch from which our words took flight.

So must you act today.
Let every affidavit be a blade.
Let every petition be a proclamation.
Let every hearing expose institutional paralysis.

But remember:
Courts respond only when the people rise.
Precedents are not born of paper but are hammered into existence by mass pressure.

Use the courts—yes—but never trust them alone.
Use them as fire uses dry wood: to burn brighter, to burn louder.

OPTION B — THE STREETS ALONE (Mass Defiance)

When the judiciary lies paralysed in the arms of power, let the streets roar! Let peaceful satyagraha swell like a tide no tyrant can hold back. For when institutions kneel, the people must stand.

Remember, comrades:
We revolutionaries never relied on whispers.
We believed in propaganda through deed.

When Saunders fell, it was not for individual vendetta.
It was to avenge the national insult of Lala Lajpat Rai’s killing—
to teach a sleeping nation that oppression invites resistance.

When we hurled harmless bombs in the Central Assembly, we aimed “to make the deaf hear.”
We protested the draconian Public Safety Bill and Trade Disputes Bill—
the ancestors of today’s UAPA, NSA, BNS and every law designed to crush workers, unions, dissent.

And the great Hunger Strike of 1929—
we starved not for comfort, but to assert dignity,
to demand recognition as political prisoners,
to turn our bodies into battlegrounds of truth.

These were lessons for the people—public education written in courage.

So today, let every march be a school.
Let every rally be a tribunal.
Let every peaceful blockade be a verdict upon tyranny.

When courts fall silent, the streets must speak the loudest.

OPTION C — DIGITAL FIRE ALONE (Online Movement)

For the chained comrade or the distant rebel, the keyboard becomes a bomb of ideas.
One spark online can ignite a prairie fire.

From every home, weave the narratives of betrayal.
Turn the DHFL robbery into a national wound.
Expose the enablers.
Rouse conscience until tyrants tremble.

The key, comrades, is this: never silence.
Silence is surrender; surrender is slavery.

As I once told the youth and workers:
“The struggle must continue… till the last—till the whole of the exploited class is liberated.”

So let every tweet be a tract.
Let every thread be a charge-sheet.
Let every viral truth be a thunderclap against fraud and repression.

Online fire is not lesser fire.
Ideas, once unleashed, travel farther than bullets.

OPTION D — APPEALING TO THE INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE (Globalizing the Struggle)

When your own institutions collapse under partisan weight, carry your case to the world.
The International Court of Justice is not a saviour, but it is a stage—
a place where the crimes of a regime can be read aloud to humanity.

We revolutionaries were internationalists.
I changed HRA to HSRA in the ruins of Feroz Shah Kotla precisely because I believed that humanity’s liberation requires global solidarity through a world federation for humanity—not narrow nationalism.

So if the oppressor closes domestic doors, knock upon global ones.
Expose the State before the conscience of the world.
Make international law a mirror in which India must confront its own reflection.

Let the ICJ hear the cries of small investors, silenced minorities, workers robbed of dignity.
Let global institutions record what local courts refuse to acknowledge.

II. COROLLARIES: THE PERMUTATIONS OF RESISTANCE

1. Judiciary + Streets

Use the courts to document injustice—
and the streets to amplify it.
Let every legal filing be followed by a rally.
Let every rally be anchored by legal evidence.
One gives legitimacy, the other gives force.

2. Streets + Digital Fire

Let ground protests feed online rage,
and online revelations fuel street mobilisation.
Marches create images; images create movements.
This is the new propaganda of the deed—non-violent, mass, unstoppable.

3. Judiciary + Streets + Digital

(when domestic courts utterly become ineffective, the “judiciary” shifts to the International Court of Justice)

A three-front war:
Courts for record,
Streets for pressure,
Digital for narrative.
If the Indian judiciary collapses, shift the judicial pillar to the International Court of Justice, but keep the streets and digital fire burning at home.

The nation must feel cornered from above, below, and all sides at once.

For our struggle has but one ultimate aim: to end the exploitation of human by human, and nation by nation, so that Purna Swaraj (complete self-independence) may finally mean justice.

Inquilab Zindabad! Long Live the Revolution! Down With Imperialism! The People United Shall Never Be Defeated!

Forever Yours,

— Shaheed-e-Azam Bhagat Singh,

Returned in 2025, from the Eternal Frontlines of the Class War

“Let us declare that the state of war does exist and shall exist so long as the Indian toiling masses and the natural resources are being exploited by a handful of parasites. They may be purely British Capitalist or mixed British and Indian or even purely Indian. They may be carrying on their insidious exploitation through mixed or even on purely Indian bureaucratic apparatus. All these things make no difference. No matter, if your Government tries and succeeds in winning over the leaders of the upper strata of the Indian Society through petty concessions and compromises and thereby cause a temporary demoralization in the main body of the forces. No matter, if once again the vanguard of the Indian movement, the Revolutionary Party, finds itself deserted in the thick of the war. (…) The war shall continue.”

— Shaheed-e-Azam Bhagat Singh’s Last Petition to the Punjab Governor, 20th March, 1931