Subhas Chandra Bose: Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose was the first prime minister of undivided India who formed the ‘Azad Hind Sarkar’ which was independent of the British rule, said Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Friday. Bose’s contributions were either ignored or undermined after the country became independent, Singh added.
The senior BJP leader also said that Narendra Modi after becoming the prime minister has been making continuous efforts to accord Bose the respect which he rightly deserves. “There is a need to re-evaluate Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose’s role and vision. Some people call it rewriting history. I call it course correction,” he said.
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Ignored, undermined
“There was a time in independent India when the contributions of Bose were either deliberately ignored or undermined, it was not evaluated correctly. It was done to the extent that several documents related to him were never made public,” Singh said. He was addressing a programme at a private university in Greater Noida.
“In 2014, when Narendra Modi became the prime minister of India, he started giving the respect to Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose which he always and rightly deserved,” the minister said.
Singh said as the home minister he got to meet the family members of Bose, after which over 300 documents related to him were declassified and dedicated to the people of India. Every Indian should be told about Bose, said the minister.
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First PM
“Sometimes people wonder what more is there about Netaji that we do not know. Most Indians know him as a prominent freedom fighter, as supreme commander of the Azad Hind Fauj, and a revolutionary who underwent several difficulties for India’s freedom. But very few people know him as the first prime minister of undivided India,” Singh said.
“Friends, the Azad Hind Fauj and the Azad Hind Sarkar, which was the first swadeshi government of India, I have zero hesitation in calling it the first swadeshi sarkar. Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose had formed this government and taken oath as prime minister on October 21, 1943,” he said.
“This government had its own postal stamps, currency, and a secret intelligence service. Developing such a system with limited resources was not an ordinary feat but a big achievement,” he added.
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