Saifuddin Kitchlew ( 15 January 1888 – 9 October 1963 ) was an Indian freedom fighter , barrister , politician and a Nationalist Muslim leader . A member of Indian National Congress , he first became Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee ( Punjab PCC ) head and later the General Secretary of the AICC in 1924 . He is most remembered for the protests in Punjab after the implementation of Rowlatt Act in March 1919 , after which on 10 April , he and another leader Satya Pal , were secretly sent to Dharamsala . A public protest rally against their arrest and that of Gandhi , on 13 April 1919 at Jallianwala Bagh , Amritsar , led to the infamous Jallianwala Bagh massacre . He was awarded the Stalin Peace Prize ( now known as Lenin Peace Prize ) in 1952
Jallianwala Bagh massacre
Jallianwala Bagh massacre
Saifuddin Kitchlew