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The unfurling of the Tricolour at Red Fort yesterday to mark 75 years of the formation of #AzadHindGovernment was a sorry spectacle of political opportunism. Half-truths, falsehoods were used to tar the memory of national icons. So I want to say a few things about Netaji & INA.
It's a patently false charge that Netaji or INA have been forgotten or that they were never treated kindly or honoured. In all our schools, colleges and universities, we read laudatory accounts of Bose and INA. We read hagiographies. There was no criticism, only hero worship.
Unlike what Prime Minister Narendra Modi claimed, Netaji and INA were lionised by successive Congress governments and the party. It was actually nationalist propaganda peddled by the Congress that Netaji and INA were understood as the truest patriots and not the old Indian Army.
