Current Affairs Question - 30 January 2021

Explanation :

• Popularly known as Punjab Kesari, Lala Lajpat Rai was one of the three Lal Bal Pal triumvirate.
• He founded the Home Rule League of America in 1917 in New York. In the USA, he worked to get moral support for the Indian independence movement from the international community.
• Servants of the People Society (SOPS) (Lok Sevak Mandal) is a non-profit social service organization founded by Lala Lajpat Rai, a prominent leader in the Indian Independence movement, in 1921 in Lahore. The society is devoted to "enlist and train national missionaries for the service of the motherland". It was shifted to India, following the partition of India in 1947.
• Young India: An Interpretation and a History of the Nationalist Movement from Within, book was By Lala Lajpat Rai written shortly after World War I broke out in Europe. In this book he describes the political situation of the country as it was in 1915 and a history of freedom struggle before 1915.