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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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