The BJP is desperate to rewrite history, to appropriate Netaji's legacy: Congress

Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose

Abhishek Manu Singhvi, a congressional spokesman, accusing the BJP-run Center of "appropriating" Subhas Chandra Bose's legacy, said Sunday that the saffron party was "desperate to rewrite it." ;history". In a veiled attack on the Nehru-Gandhi clan, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Sunday that the contribution of several great leaders such as Sardar Patel, BR Ambedkar and Bose to the country's struggle for freedom had been "deliberately" forgotten for glorify "a family". He also said that it was high time for more Indians to know that these pillars had played a historical role.

Wearing the famous Azad Hind Fauj cap, the Prime Minister hoisted the national flag at the Red Fort and unveiled a 75th anniversary plaque for the proclamation of the Azad Hind government by Bose.

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At a press conference, Mr. Singhvi said that Congress had always strived to protect, preserve and disseminate the ideals of Bose, the brave patriot. and laicist.

"Those who do not have their ideas and their idol and who have no contribution to the national movement for the struggle for freedom are trying to appropriate the legacy of our fighters of freedom in order to be perceived as nationalists. Today, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has desperately tried to do the same.

"A desperate BJP attempts to rewrite history and create an imaginary rivalry between Sardar Patel and Jawaharlal Nehru and between Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose and Nehru. Singhvi pointed out that Bose and Patel were completely opposed to the "philosophy of sectarianism and fanaticism defended by the ideological patriarch of Prime Minister Modi – the RSS and the Hindu Mahasabha". He added that Patel, in a letter to Shyama Prasad Mukherjee, said that "the activities of the Hindu Mahasabha posed a clear threat to the government and that their activities did not go out despite the 39; ban ".

Singhvi pointed out that Nehru was one of Bose's lawyers during his trials before the Indian National Army (INA). "Was there anybody from the RSS to support Netaji?", He asked, adding, "The Prime Minister and the BJP are desperately trying to take over all the national legacies."

praising Bose for his military efforts to liberate India, their "ideological ancestors did just the opposite". "When Netaji reorganized Azad Hind Fauj (or INA) in Japan and Gandhiji launched the Quit India Appeal, the RSS was hand-in-hand with the British," she said. he declared.

Singhvi also said he had political goals. the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) described Bose as the victim of Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru's rival, but in fact Bose had always highly respected them. He pointed out that Bose had actually named two INA regiments after Gandhi and Nehru.

This is Bose who gave Gandhi the nickname "Rashtrapita" or the father of the nation during a radio address in Singapore in 1944, Singhvi added that the same year, Nathu Ram Godse , a member of the Hindu Mahasabha, had tried to kill Gandhi for the first time.

Quoting public documents, correspondence and books, Singhvi baderted that Congress never contradicted Bose. He added that Congress has always welcomed the previous decisions of the Modi government and the West Bengal government to declbadify the Bose files.

"But the BJP just made politics with. Over the past 53 months, the Modi government has only been engaged in reporting and nothing has been opposed to the congressional party as it has perpetrated it. We still want all Netaji files to be declbadified, "he said.

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