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India@75     Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav





























             THE RELENTLESS




             AZAD HIND FAUZ





             SOLDIERS








                                                                   orn on 23 January 1897 in Cuttack, Odisha,
                      Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose's                Netaji  Subhash  Chandra  Bose  was  an
              slogan- "Give me blood, and I shall give  Bastute leader  who not only  envisioned
          you freedom!" had filled the hearts of every        freeing India from the British but wanted to lay
            Indian with new vigor and zeal to fight for       a  strong  foundation  for  the  nation's  progress
         independence. Bose was one of the leading            and  make  it  AatmaNirbhar.  He considered
               figures of the Indian freedom struggle         poverty,  illiteracy,  disease,  lack  of  scientific
            under whose stewardship Azad Hind Fauj            sightedness  as  the  biggest impediment.  This
         challenged the mighty British empire. Netaji         is  the  reason  that  his  Azad  Hind  government
         had also formed the Azad Hind government.            sought  to  revamp  every  sector.  From  its  own
         Considering its historical significance Prime        bank, currency to the radio station, the Azad
             Minister Narendra Modi had hoisted the           Hind Government's presence in every field was
           tricolor at the Red Fort in 2018 to mark its       spectacular. He was a towering personality who
            75th anniversary. On 23 January 2021, on          united the country by breaking the walls of caste,
          the occasion of the 125th birth anniversary         creed, color, language, and region. His thinking
          of Netaji, the Government of India launched         of  national unity  can  be  gauged  from  this
          year-long celebrations to commemorate it.           incident- the three military officers of the Indian
          Also, it was decided to celebrate Parakram          National  Army  Col.  Gubarakhsh  Singh  Dhillon,
          Diwas on 23 January, his birth anniversary.         General  Shahnawaz  Khan,  and  Colonel  Prem
                                                              Kumar  Sehgal  were  court-martialed.  Akali  Dal

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