'Waited for 5 years to do my duty,' What Parliament attack accused Sagar wrote in diary 2 yrs ago

New Delhi: In an attack on the sanctity of Indian Parliament, Sagar Sharma had jumped to the Lok Sabha from the visitors’ hall on December 13 as the Parliamentarians paid tribute to the martyrs of the 2001 attack. Now his diary reveals that he has been preparing for the day for over 7-8 years. 

A diary allegedly found from the home of Sagar Sharma from Lucknow shows that he has been jotting down his thoughts in the diary since 2015. Sagar writes in his diary that he was determined to do something for the country, however, was in a dilemma if he should tell his parents or not. 

Sagar writes, “I have been waiting with hope for five years that a day would come when I would move towards my duty. The most powerful person in the world is not the one who knows how to snatch something but a strong man is one who has the ability to give up every pleasure.” The ones who breached Parliament’s security on December 13 had reportedly met on a Bhagat Singh fan page on Instagram. 

Hard to tell parents , writes Sagar 

The snips of his diary penned down by him in 2015, two years before he was arrested under terror charges. “The time has come to leave home has come near,” wrote Sagar in his diary in 2015. “I wish I could explain it to my parents too,” Sagar wrote.

"I work only for my country, and for its full freedom...Things like rape, corruption, hunger, murder, kidnapping, smuggling, fighting for religion are against the country's interest...I am not rich; I belong to a middle-class family. I need some friends who are honest about working for the country," he writes. On another page, he quotes a couplet from Ram Prasad Bismil's epic "Sarfaroshi ki Tamanna".

The Bhagat Singh angle 

The diary entry of June 3, 2015 also has a reference to a letter to Bhagat Singh, purportedly written by Sagar. Calling Bhagat Singh ‘‘My Lord and My God’’, he writes, “...After you have gone, I’m trying my best to free my country. His diary also had slogans such as ‘Inquilab Zindabad’ 

“I’m not rich but belong to a middle class family, I need some friends who are honest with the country,” the diary says.