The Raid
The plan was put into action at 10 p.m. on 18 April 1930. The police armoury was captured by a group of revolutionaries led by Ganesh Ghosh, while another group of ten men led by Lokenath Bal took the Auxiliary Forces armoury. However, they could not locate ammunition. Revolutionaries also succeeded in cutting telephone and telegraph wires and disrupting the movement of the trains. About sixteen revolutionary captured the European club's headquarters. However, the day was Good Friday holiday and most of the club members were at their homes. Therefore they called for troopers from Calcutta and this was not expected by the revolutionaries. Some sixty-five revolutionaries took part in the raid undertaken in the name of the Indian Republican Army, Chittagong Branch. After the raids, the revolutionary groups gathered outside the police armoury where Surya Sen took a military salute, hoisted the National Flag and proclaimed a Provisional Revolutionary Government. The revolutionaries left Chittagong town before dawn and marched towards the Chittagong hill ranges, looking for a safe place.
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