Centre decided to celebrate Subhash Chandra Jayanti as Prakram Diwas

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Context: The Union Culture Ministry announced that January 23, the birth anniversary of Subhas Chandra Bose, will be celebrated as “Parakram Diwas” every year.

The government had decided to celebrate the 125th birth anniversary year of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose starting from January 23, 2021, in a befitting manner at the national and international level.

Subhas Chandra Bose

He was an indian revolutionary prominent in the independence movement against British rule of India.
He also led an Indian national force from abroad against the Western powers during World War II.
In 1920 he passed the civil service examination, but in April 1921, after hearing of the nationalist turmoils in India, he resigned his candidacy and hurried back to India.
Bose joined the noncooperation movement started by Mohandas K. Gandhi, who had made the Indian National Congress a powerful nonviolent organization.
Bose was advised by Gandhi to work under Chitta Ranjan Das, a politician in Bengal.
There Bose became a youth educator, journalist, and commandant of the Bengal Congress volunteers.
He founded the Forward Bloc, hoping to rally radical elements.
On October 21, 1943, Bose proclaimed the establishment of a provisional independent Indian government, and his so-called Indian National Army (Azad Hind Fauj).