Shaheed Bhai Balmukund

Bhai Balmukund was a disciple of Lala Lajpat Rai in the early phase of his political career. Later, he was drawn towards the revolutionary groups of Lala Hardayal and Ras Behari Bose. He was involved in the bomb attack on Viceroy Lord Hardinge in Delhi in 1912, for which he was arrested, tried and sentenced to death.

Bhai Balmukund (1889-May 11, 1915) was an Indian revolutionary freedom fighter. He was a cousin of another revolutionary Bhai Parmanand, who was a founder member of Ghadar Party.

Bhai Balmukund born in 1889 at village Kariala in Jhelum district (now in Pakistan). His father's name was Bhai Mathura Das. His family hailed from a famous martyr of  Sikh history Bhai Mati Das from whom they attached the epithet Bhai to their names. Balmukund's interest in national movement aroused when he was a student. After graduation, he took the profession of teaching, but his attachments to the national movement made him an ardent nationalist.

On December 23, 1912, when Lord Hardinge was marching in a state through the Chandni Chowk, Delhi, a bomb was thrown on him. The Viceroy received minor injuries only, but his attendant was killed. Another bomb was thrown at some Europeans at Lawrence Garden, Lahore five months later on May 17, 1913. Following investigations, Balmukund was arrested from Jodhpur, where he was working as a tutor of the Jodhpur Maharaja's sons.

A trial was held at Delhi after the investigations of the bombings and Balmukund was sentenced to death along with his companions Master Amir Chand, Awadh Behari, and Basant Kumar Biswas on October 5, 1914. He was hanged in the Ambala Central Jail on May 11, 1915.