{"id":143203,"date":"2021-10-26T18:25:43","date_gmt":"2021-10-26T12:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=143203"},"modified":"2021-10-26T18:25:43","modified_gmt":"2021-10-26T12:55:43","slug":"pib-bhubaneswar-along-with-state-culture-department-organise-a-joint-press-conference-on-netajis-azad-hind-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/pib-bhubaneswar-along-with-state-culture-department-organise-a-joint-press-conference-on-netajis-azad-hind-government\/","title":{"rendered":"PIB Bhubaneswar along with State Culture Department organise a Joint Press Conference on Netaji&#8217;s Azad Hind Government"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u200b\u200b<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Press Information Bureau (PIB) Bhubaneswar in association with the Language, Literature and Culture Department, Government of Odisha organised a joint press conference at Netaji Birth Place Museum on the anniversary of the formation of Netaji&#8217;s Azad Hind Government<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>Background<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose arrived in Singapore on July 4, 1943. At that time, the Indian Independence Movement had already been launched in East Asia by the late Rash Behari Bose, a veteran nationalist exiled in Japan.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The old leader handed over charge to the new arrival, Subhas Chandra Bose, who was acclaimed as &#8216;Netaji&#8217;. Netaji then took charge of the Indian National Army.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>Formation of Azad Hind Government<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On October 21, 1943. Bose announced the formation of the Provisional Government of Free India (PGFI) also known as <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Arzi Hukumat-e-Azad Hind,<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> or in short, Azad Hind Government, an Indian government-in-exile.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Azad Hind Government started functioning from Singapore, with 11 ministers and eight representatives from the INA.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Azad Hind Government had \u200b\u200bits own currency, court and civil code.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The provisional government was also <\/span><b>formed in the Japanese-occupied Andaman and Nicobar Islands. <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The islands were reoccupied by the British in 1945.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The provisional capital of the <\/span><b>Azad Hind Government <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">was Port Blair, while its capital-in-exile was Rangoon and Singapore.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>Ministers in <\/b><b>Azad Hind Government<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>The Provisional Government of Free India consisted of a Cabinet<\/strong> headed by Subhas Chandra Bose as the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Head of the State, The Prime Minister and the Minister for War and Foreign Affairs<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Captain Doctor Lakshmi Sahgal<\/strong> was the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Minister in Charge of the Women&#8217;s Organization<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>S A Ayer<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> headed the publicity and propaganda wing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Rash Behari Bose<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was designated as the supreme advisor.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>Who recognized the Azad Hind Government?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Azad Hind Government <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">was recognised by nine Axis-aligned countries: Japan, Germany, Italy, Croatia, Burma, Thailand, Philippines, Manchukuo (Manchuria), and the Republic of China (Wang Jingwei regime).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>How did the Azad Hind Government come to an end?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bose\u2019s death was seen as the end of the Azad Hind government. The Second World War, also, ended in 1945 with the defeat of the Axis powers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This post is based on the article <\/span><b>\u201c<\/b><b>PIB Bhubaneswar along with State Culture Department organise a Joint Press Conference on Netaji&#8217;s Azad Hind Government<\/b><b>\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in <\/span><b>PIB <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">on <\/span><b>25th October 2021.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the News? \u200b\u200bPress Information Bureau (PIB) Bhubaneswar in association with the Language, Literature and Culture Department, Government of Odisha organised a joint press conference at Netaji Birth Place Museum on the anniversary of the formation of Netaji&#8217;s Azad Hind Government Background Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose arrived in Singapore on July 4, 1943. 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