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EFFORT TO PROTECT AND

PRESERVE NETAJI’S HERITAGE…
Netaji Subhas
Bose’s bravery
ince 2014, the Government has taken
is well-known. A Sseveral measures towards preserving
scholar, soldier and conserving the precious heritage of
& statesman par Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose.

excellence, we are On October 21, 2018, Prime Minister
soon to commence Narendra Modi hoisted the National Flag
his 125th Jayanti at Red Fort to commemorate the 75th
Anniversary of formation of the Azad Hind
celebrations. For
Government in honour of Netaji. This was
that, a high-level
the first time that apart from Independence
committee has
Day the National Flag was hoisted at the Red
been formed.
Fort. Marking the occasion, Prime Minister
Come, let us Modi had said, “This is the same Red Fort
mark this special where 75 years ago Netaji Subhas Chandra
occasion in a grand Bose had dreamt of a victory parade. Taking
manner! oath as the first Prime Minister of the Azad
Hind Government, Netaji had announced
that the Tricolor would be hoisted with full
Prime Minister glory one day at the Red Fort. Today India’s
125 Crore people are moving ahead with
Narendra Modi
the resolution of a New India; a New India
in a Tweet on
that was also envisaged by Netaji Subhas
December
Chandra Bose.” Not only this, during his
21, 2020
visit to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands
in 2018, Prime Minister Narendra Modi
Sarat Chandra Bose, "Only on the soil of had joined the programme to mark 75th
sacrifice and suffering can we raise our anniversary of hoisting Tricolour by Netaji
national edifice." After resigning from the Subhas Chandra Bose.
office, he came to meet Mahatma Gandhi
on the advice of Deshbandhu Chittaranjan
Das. He became a great freedom fighter Ittehad, Itmad and Qurbani
and thinker who devoted his entire life to
l Bose wrote a two-part book titled ‘The
the cause of Indian freedom struggle. The
Indian Struggle’
nation knows him by the name of Netaji
l In November 1941, Subhas Chandra
Subhas Chandra Bose. Netaji was the one
Bose established the Free India Centre
who had first addressed Mahatma Gandhi
and Azad Hind Radio also known as the
as ‘Father of the Nation’. During the period
Free India Radio in Berlin
of 1921 to 1941, he was imprisoned by the
l Ittehad (Unity), Itmad (Faith) and Qurbani
British at least 11 times.
(Sacrifice) encapsulated the motto of the
It was on October 21, 1943, that Subhas
Azad Hind movement
Chandra Bose announced the formation of
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