When Azad's mother Jagrani Devi died in Jhansi in March 1951

“Hey old lady, don't come here, your son was a thief.  That's why the whites killed him"

 The Bhil standing there laughingly said to an elderly woman wrapped in a dirty dhoti who was left without wood in the forest...

 “No, Chandu has sacrificed for freedom.”

 The elderly woman said proudly. The name of that elderly woman was Jagrani Devi and she had given birth to five sons, of which the last son was martyred a few days ago...

 This mother lovingly called that son Chandu and the world knows him by the name of "Azad" Chandrashekhar Azad Tiwari...!

 India had become independent, Azad's friend Sadashiv Rao one day reached Azad's village while searching for his parents...

 Independence was achieved but many things were lost.

 A few years after the martyrdom of Chandrashekhar Azad, his father also died.

 Azad's brother had also died before this.  After the death of his father in extreme poverty, Azad's poor and destitute old mother, even at that old age, instead of helping anyone, used to go to the forests and collect wood and cow dung and kept earning her living by selling sticks and wood...

 But due to her old age, she was not able to work enough to arrange for a full meal.

 Sometimes she would buy jowar and sometimes millet and drink its solution because she did not have the physical strength left to earn enough money to buy pulses, rice, wheat and fuel for cooking.

The shameful thing is that their condition continued till 2 years after the country got independence (1949)…

 Sadashiv ji had brought Chandrashekhar Azad ji to his home in Jhansi after fulfilling his promise to him, because due to his own poor condition, his house was very small, hence he brought him to another friend of Azad, Bhagwan Das Mahor.  Had arranged for Azad's mother to stay at his house and served her till her last moments...

 When Azad's mother Jagrani Devi died in Jhansi in March 1951, Sadashiv ji respected her like his own mother and performed her last rites with his own hands.

 After the death of Azad's mother, the people of Jhansi built a bench in her name at a public place in her memory.  The then government of the state declared this construction as an illegal and unlawful work done by the people of Jhansi...

 But the citizens of Jhansi, not giving importance to the mandate of the then government, decided to install the statue of Chandrashekhar Azad's Matashree...

 The work of making the statue was handed over to skilled craftsman Rudra Narayan Singh, a special associate of Chandrashekhar Azad.

 After looking at the photo, he prepared a statue of Azad's Matashree's face...

 When the central government and the governments of Uttar Pradesh came to know that the statue of Azad's mother had been prepared and many revolutionaries including Sadashiv Rao, Roopnarayan, Bhagwan Das Mahor were going to install the statue with the help of the people of Jhansi, they  Both these governments declared the installation of the statue of Matashree of immortal martyr martyr Pandit Chandrashekhar Azad as a threat to the country, society and law and order of Jhansi, banned the program of installation of his statue and imposed curfew in the entire Jhansi city.

 Police were deployed at every nook and corner so that the statue of Matashree of immortal martyr Chandrashekhar Azad could not be established...!

The public and revolutionaries set out to install the statue of Azad's mother...

 

 The then governments, incensed by the violence flying on the streets of Jhansi under their orders, ordered the police to shoot...

 Sadashiv, who was moving towards the back with the statue of Azad's Matashree on his head, was surrounded by the public from all sides...

 Police lathi charged the procession...

 Hundreds of people were injured, dozens became crippled for life and some even died.  (The death was never officially confirmed)...

 Due to this incident, the statue of Chandrashekhar Azad's Matashree could not be installed.