Bhagat Singh had made the following statement in the court after they had thrown bombs in the Assembly, on April 8, 1929:

“Producers and workers are the most important section of society, but the exploiting class loots their hard-earned income and also keeps them bereft of basic rights. Farmers, who grow food for everyone, die of hunger along with their families, weavers who weave cloth for the world do not have enough to clothe their children, carpenters, blacksmiths and masons who build grand palaces are forced to live in slums themselves. The bourgeoisie and other exploiters leech on them to make for themselves a life of luxury and comfort.”

Apart from freedom from the British, Bhagat Singh outlined a set of key objectives for the Indian revolution.  In a letter to young political activists on February 2,  1931, Bhagat Singh writes,

“The real revolutionary forces are in villages and factories, that is, peasants and labourers. But our bourgeoisie leaders will never organise them. Once these sleeping lions have awakened, they will go far beyond the goals set by the bourgeoisie leaders... There is no doubt that initially we will have to raise the economic demands of these classes but in the end they have to be motivated to take control of political power.”