Parakram Diwas

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).

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