Ram Chandra Bharadwaj, also known as Pandit Ram Chandra was the president of the
Ghadar Party between 1914 and 1917. As a member of the Ghadar Party, Ram Chandra was also one of the founding editors of the
Hindustan Ghadar and a key leader of the party in its role in the
Indo-German Conspiracy. He assumed the role of the president of the party following
Lala Har Dayal's departure for Switzerland in 1914 and, along with
Bhagwan Singh and
Maulvi Mohammed Barkatullah, was key in rallying the support of the
South Asian community in the
Pacific Coast in the wake of the
Komagata Maru incident for the planned
February mutiny.
Ram Chandra was assassinated on 24 April 1918 on the last day of the
Hindu–German Conspiracy Trial by Ram Singh, a fellow defendant who believed that Ram Chandra was a British agent.
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