Who among the following freedom fighters lost his life during the protest against Simon Commission where black flags were waved at the Commission?

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The correct answer is Lala Lajpat Rai.Key Points

Lala Lajpat Rai:

Lala Lajpat Rai immensely contributed to attaining the independence of the nation.
Besides, a great freedom fighter and leader, Lala Lajpat Rai was also a noted writer.
He died after the police lathi-charged on the activists, protesting the arrival of Simon Commission.
On October 30, 1928, to boycott the arrival of the members of the Simon Commission in Lahore, a peaceful procession, headed by Lajpat Rai was launched.
Intercepting the march, Superintendent of Police, Scott ordered his police force to ’lathi-charge at the activists.
To take avenge the death of Lala Lajpat Rai, Bhagat Singh and his associates plotted the assassination of Scott.
But, the revolutionaries, mistaking J.P. Saunders, an Assistant Superintendent of Police, as Scott, killed him instead.

Additional Information Chittaranjan Das

He was born on 5th November 1869 in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
He was popularly called Deshbandhu which means friend of the country.
He was an Indian politician and leader of the Swaraj (Independence) Party in Bengal under British rule.
He was a leading figure in Bengal during the Non-Cooperation Movement of 1919-1922.
He initiated the ban on British clothes, setting an example by burning his own European clothes and wearing khadi clothes.
He successfully defended Aurobindo Ghosh in the Alipore bomb case.
He brought out a newspaper called ‘Forward’ and later changed its name to ‘Liberty’ to fight the British Raj.

Sachindra Nath Sanyal

Sanyal was considered the most senior leader of India's revolutionary movement after Subhash Chandra Bose escaped to Japan.
Sanyal was also jailed for his involvement in the Kakori conspiracy but he was later released.
Sachindra Nath was also a mentor for revolutionaries like Chandrashekhar Azad and Bhagat Singh.
He contracted tuberculosis in jail and was sent to Gorakhpur Jail for his final months.
He died on 7 February 1942.

Surendranath Banerjee

Sir Surendranath Banerjee often known as Rashtraguru was an Indian nationalist leader during British Rule.
He founded a nationalist organization called the Indian National Association and was one of the founding members of the Indian National Congress.
Surendranath supported Montagu–Chelmsford Reforms, unlike Congress, and with many liberal leaders he left Congress and founded a new organization named Indian National Liberation Federation in 1919.
Surendranath Banerjee was born in Calcutta, in the province of Bengal to a Rarhi Kulin Brahmin family, suggesting that the ancestral seat of the family was in the Rarh region of present-day West Bengal.