Vijay Singh Pathik

Who was Vijay Singh Pathik?

Vijay Singh Pathik alias Bhoop Singh Gurjar, popularly known as Rashtriya Pathik, was born in a Gurjar family in Village Guthawali,7th Km.stone on Bulandshahr-Saidpur road, District Bulandshahr, Uttar Pradesh, India. His father's name was Hamir Singh Gurjar and mother's name Kamal Kunwari. His name was Bhoop Singh Gurjar but after being implicated in the Lahore conspiracy case in 1915, he changed his name to Vijay Singh Pathik. His grandfather's sacrifice in the struggle of 1857 in Bulandshahr district, affected him deeply to be freedom fighter and rovolutionist.His father also took active part in the Sepoy Mutiny of 1857.Vijay Singh Pathik was among the first revolutionaries from the state who lit the torch of freedom movement in the state. Much before Mohandas K. Gandhi initiated the Satyagrah movement, Pathik experimented during the Bijolia’s Kisan agitation.