The man came out with
flying colours in the ICS examination (Equal to the present day Civil Services
Examination), in which he stood fourth with a minimum amount of time spent –
approximately 8 months time!- & knew that the sole purpose of his life was
to build a nation which only a few had even dreamed in their dreams; he
resigned from the ICS even before joining it, which no Indian had ever done
earlier in the history of ICS!
“I
have come to believe that it is time for us to wash our hands clean of any
connection with the British Government.........The best way to end a government
is to withdraw from it......I sent in my resignation a few days ago....!”, he
stated resigning from the ICS!
He met Gandhi in 1921
& asked 3 questions to him; though ‘ONLY’ the answer of one question
satisfied Bose he took his advice to meet C.R.Das (Deshbandu Chittaranjan Das)
@ Calcutta; Subhas met him @ Calcutta & started to follow him!
He became the President Of The IndianNational Congress in 1938. HE WON THE POST AGAIN IN 1939, THAT TOO AGAINST GANDHI’S WISHES!
He was of the view that ‘ONLY THROUGH REVOLUTION FREEDOM CAN BE WON!”
As Gandhi was ‘NOT’ in the
interest of Bose’s Ideas of Moving Forward in the fight against the British
& actively opposed Bose’s planning he resigned his presidentship &
later formed the Forward Bloc within the Congress! Then, the Congress barred
the twice elected president of Congress Bose from holding any office in the
organisation for 3 years!
Though the barring was a raw deal to Bose, as he predicted
accurately the Second World War started in Europe and he intensified his fight
against the British with the help of The Forward Bloc,
in British India! The British government jailed him in 1940 & then when he
started indefinite hunger strike the British were forced to release him! He
was kept under strict British Vigil in his Calcutta residence from where he
escaped in disguise, in 1941!
He went to Germany via Kabul &
Moscow, in disguise! He influenced the Germans & he even met Hitler for the
Cause Of Indian Freedom. The Germans were won over by Netaji & his charisma
and he got the freedom to work for the Indian Freedom without having any
interference from the Nazi party or the German Bureaucracy! With the help of
the Germans who always considered the work of Netaji with great esteem &
the Nucleus Group he formed in Germany, he started to address the Indians over
Azad Hind Radio, from the German Soil! He also laid the foundation of INA
(Indian National Army!) in Germany!
Arriving in Tokyo in April 1943, after a 45 day long submarine
saga in the War Hit Oceans, which the Germans facilitated for the Netaji, Bose
attracted the attention of the Japanese high command, including Hideki Tojo, Japan's premier. The Japanese agreed to cooperate in founding an
Axis-supported Indian National Army (INA) in Southeast Asia. Bose was
flown to Singapore and became commander of the INA and head of the Free India provisional government (Azad Hind Government).
The INA included both
Indian prisoners of war from Singapore and Indian civilians in Southeast Asia.
The strength of INA grew to 43,000 and fought Allied forces in 1944 inside the
borders of India at Imphal and in Burma. For Bose any means and any ally were
acceptable in the struggle to liberate India. ‘Jai Hind’ was the official
greeting for soldiers & civilians & Rabindranath Tagore’s ‘Jana Gana
Mana’ was the National Anthem! He told the 3 million Indians in East Asia that
‘In the world’s history no nation got its freedom without shedding its own
blood.....this was the price they had to pay & there was no shirking
it.....!’ He told them ‘Give Me Blood...And, I Will Give You Freedom!’ His ‘War
Cry’ ‘Chalo Dilli/Delhi’ had reverberated all over East Asia & wherever
there were ‘TRUE INDIANS/BHARATEEYA’!
Before the final & well planned assault
on the British, Azad Hind Government had its first territory in the form of
Andaman & Nicobar Islands, which had been gifted by the Japanese
government! And, Subhas Chandra Bose, on December 31st 1943
personally visited the First Free Indian Territory, Ever!
INA,
under the Impeccable Leadership of its Netaji, marched forward against the
Mighty British via Burma & even conquered some regions inside the British
Indian Territory, inside the north east border. When the months long Siege Of
Imphal by INA was nearing to bear fruit, which would have led the INA easily to
Bengal & then to their final destination Delhi, the monsoons played spoil
sports & a large number of valiant soldiers of INA fell to the inclement
weather & the following cavalcade of diseases like malaria. When the Second
World War ended in favour of the Allied Forces & Japan surrendered, which
was the sole supplier of everything the INA had including Tanks, Vehicles, Guns
etc, after the ‘HORRIBLE’ Hiroshima & Nagasaki Nuclear Bombing, ‘The
Fighting Netaji’ had no option but to retreat & prepare for another assault
on the War Weakened British!
He retreated to Burma & then to Thailand,
with his INA Soldiers which included the Rani Of Jhansi Regiment of female
soldiers. He then came to Saigon & from there boarded a Japanese bomber to
Japan, from where he planned to go to Soviet Union to pursue his course of
action, The Liberation Of India! He is supposed to have met his death near the
Formosa Islands, when the Bomber he was travelling crashed, mysteriously!
Officially,
Bose died in a plane crash over Taiwan, while flying to Tokyo on 18 August 1945.
It is believed that he was on route to the Soviet Union in a Japanese plane
when it crashed in Taiwan!
Three officers of the INA were tried after the war in Delhi; the
trial attracted so much popular sympathy (including statements by Nehru and
Gandhi that the men were great patriots) that the British decision to withdraw
from India followed. Bose indirectly and posthumously achieved his goal of
Indian independence.
Bose was posthumously awarded the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian award
in 1992, but it was later withdrawn in response to a Supreme Court directive following a Public Interest
Litigation filed in the Court against the "posthumous" nature of the
award. The Award Committee could not give conclusive evidence on Bose's death
and thus the "posthumous" award was invalidated. No headway was made
on this issue however.
Bose's portrait hangs in the Indian Parliament, and a statue of him has
been erected in front of the West Bengal Legislative
Assembly.
The Entire Nation & Samskruty
Bharateeyam Salute Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, One Of The Greatest Sons India
Ever Had, today, on His 116th Birthday & Celebrate The Memory
Of His Courage, Spirit Of Freedom, Valour, Dedication, Determination,
Will Power, Great Planning & Above All His Great Mind To Sacrifice Himself
To Give India What She Needed & Deserved Most At That Period Of Time..........FREEDOM!!!
Please Note:
‘Story Of I.N.A’ published by the National Book Trust, India is
suggested by Samskruty Bharateeyam. (ISBN: 978-81-237-2122-4)
