Subhas Chandra Bose was 'first Prime Minister' of undivided India, says Rajnath Singh
He passed this remark while addressing a programme at a private university in Greater Noida. He said, "The Azad Hind Sarkar was the first "swadeshi" government of India. I have zero hesitation in calling it the first "swadeshi sarkar"."
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New Delhi, Nov 12: While talking about Subhash Chandra Bose, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, on Friday (November 12) said that Bose was the first Prime Minister of undivided India. He further also took a dig at the then Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru-led-Congress government saying his contribution was largely ignored by successive govt (Congress govt) after independence.
He passed this remark while addressing a programme at a private university in Greater Noida. He said, "The Azad Hind Sarkar 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 claimed. The Defence Minister went on to assert that 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."
The senior BJP leader said that ever since Narendra Modi became prime minister, efforts are being made to accord Bose "the respect he rightly deserves and is due to him". “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.
"In 2014, when Narendra Modi became prime minister, he started giving respect to Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose which he always and rightly deserved," Singh said when he was the Union 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.
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