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Government has decided to place a statue of Subash Chandra Bose at India Gate. occupying a prominent place in the upcoming administrative complex will serve as a daily reminder of Bose’s core political beliefs to citizens.
What were the basic political ideas that Subash Chandra Bose believed in?
He was attracted to military discipline. At the 1928 session of the Indian National Congress in Calcutta, he organised a display replete with military pageantry, dressing up in the uniform of a senior officer in the British army.
He was non-communal and deeply secular. He appointed many Muslims to senior positions in the Indian National Army (INA).
Despite serious political differences with Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru, he accorded them a lot of respect. He was the first who referred to Gandhi as Father of the Nation, in a radio speech, and also named two of the four INA regiments by the name of Gandhi and Nehru.
He was attracted by the ideology of Marxism and his ambition for post-independent Indian society was strongly egalitarian.
He also believed in gender equality. The famed Rani of Jhansi regiment he set up under the aegis of the INA remains a unique experiment in women’s empowerment in Southeast Asia to this day.
Source– This post is based on the article “Bose’s legacy” published in Business standard on 24th Jan 2022.
