Chandra Sekhar Azad was born in Bhavra, India, in 1906, and is an Indian liberation warrior and co-founder of the Hindustan Socialist Republican Army.
Chandrashekhar Sitaram Tiwari (23 July 1906 – 27 February 1931), also known as Chandra Shekhar Azad, was an Indian revolutionary who reorganised the Hindustan Republican Association (HRA) after the deaths of its founder, Ram Prasad Bismil, and three other prominent party leaders, Roshan Singh, Rajendra Nath Lahiri, and Ashfaqulla Khan, under the new name of Hindustan Socialist Republican Association. His parents were Sitaram Tiwari and Jagrani Devi, and he was from Badarka, Unnao, Uttar Pradesh. When signing pamphlets as the commander in chief of the HSRA, he frequently used the pseudonym "Balraj."
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