Sheel Bhadra Yajee

Biography:

Sheel Bhadra Yajee was an activist from Bihar who was associated with the non-violent and the violent form of the Indian independence movement. Yajee's participation in the freedom movement began in 1928 when as a student he attended the Calcutta Session of the Indian National Congress. He joined the Congress Socialist Party four years later and became involved in the Kisan movement. Later he came in close touch with Subhas Chandra Bose and Mahatma Gandhi.