Parakram Diwas 2021: India remembers Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose on his 125th birth anniversary

Parakram Diwas 2021 - Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose is one of the most influential leaders of the Indian Freedom Movement.

His role in India’s independence movement is as vital as Mahatma Gandhi, Jawahar Lal Nehru, or any other national figure of that time.

He made his own force known as Azad Hind Fauz (Indian National Army), many of whom laid their lives in the fight against the British forces.

Born on January 23, 1897, in Cuttack in Odisha, he qualified for Indian Civil Services but he left the job. Instead of working under the Britishers, he decided to fight against the imperial power and free India from them.

It is believed that he died in a plane crash on August 18, 1948, at the Japanese-controlled Matsuyama military airport in Taihoku (now Taiwan). However, many didn’t believe it and it has remained shrouded in a mystery to date.

Some people believed that he lived as a saint in Uttar Pradesh while many others believe that he settled abroad.

The government of India has decided to commemorate his birth anniversary as Parakram Diwas.

However, this has caused controversy as West Bengal’s ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) and the Forward Bloc, a party which Bose himself had formed in 1939, have alleged that the BJP government is doing with a view to get public support for the forthcoming assembly elections in the state. They have called it a political stunt.

Some of the landmark slogans that Bose gave during the freedom movement are, "Give me blood and I will give you freedom!"; "Forget not that the grossest crime is to compromise with injustice and wrong. Remember the eternal law: you must give if you want to get"; "No real change in history has ever been achieved by discussions" and "The secret of political bargaining is to look more strong than what you really are."

Went to Netaji Bhawan in Kolkata to pay tributes to the brave Subhas Bose.

He undertook numerous measures for the development of Kolkata. #ParakramDivas pic.twitter.com/XdChQG36nk

— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) January 23, 2021