President of India, Ram Nath Kovind, on Tuesday paid floral tributes to Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose on his 121st birth anniversary at…
President Ram Nath Kovind paying floral tribute to Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose on his 121st birth anniversary on Tuesday. (Photo: Twitter)
President of India, Ram Nath Kovind, on Tuesday paid floral tributes to Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose on his 121st birth anniversary at Rashtrapati Bhavan.
Kovind in a tweet said, “On his birthday, I offer my tributes to Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose. He remains one of our most beloved national heroes and an icon of India’s freedom struggle #PresidentKovind”.
On his birthday, I offer my tributes to Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose. He remains one of our most beloved national heroes and an icon of India’s freedom struggle #PresidentKovind
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— President of India (@rashtrapatibhvn) January 23, 2018
#PresidentKovind paid floral tributes to Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose on his birthday at Rashtrapati Bhavan today pic.twitter.com/wFmrgxjnMt
— President of India (@rashtrapatibhvn) January 23, 2018
Subhas Chandra Bose, who was also referred as Netaji, was born 23 January 1897 in Bengal constituency (now Odisha state) in India. He was a Indian Independence movement activist and a member of Indian National Congress Party. He became the party president in 1938.
Netaji left India after he had a falling-out with Mahatma Gandhi and later approached Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan to assist in making India an independent country.
In 1942, Bose formed the Indian National Army with help from Japan to fight the British Raj in India.
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However, Netaji died from third-degree burns on 18 August 1945 after his overloaded Japanese plane crashed in Japanese-ruled Formosa (now Taiwan). His death has been mired in controversy, as the circumstances of his death were not accepted by his supporters.
The government has so far released over 303 classified files on Netaji. The declassified files are available on http://www.netajipapers.gov.in.
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