Nation remembers Subash Chandra Bose on his 113rd birth anniversary
New Delhi: The nation paid rich tributes to Subash Chandra Bose, the great Indian freedom-fighter and head of the Indian National Army (INA) set up against the British, on the
occasion his 113th birth anniversary on Saturday. In New Delhi, the Chief Minister,
Sheila Dikshit, led the people in paying homage to Subhash Chandra Bose at a function
held to mark the occasion. Bose, who led his Indian National Army (INA) against
the British Army on the Burma border, died in mysterious circumstances. It is
believed he died in a plane crash over Japan in 1945. Delhi CM, on this occasion,
also inaugurated a medical emergency room named 'Shushrusha', where a blood donation
camp was organised. "Today, when you are holding a blood donation camp, (it) is,
I am sure, supposed to be inspired by Subhash Ji's great line-- 'You give me blood
and I will give you freedom'. Now if you learn from that when you donate blood,
we are (actually) giving freedom to live to a person," said Sheila Dikshit. Those
present on this occasion included Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar, senior Bhartiya
Janta Party leader Lal Krishna Advani and Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee.
After escaping a British government's prison sentence for his role in the freedom
movement, Bose left India in 1943 and took help from European and fascist communist leaders in his struggle against the colonial regime.
