On 30 December 1943, Subhas
Chandra Bose raised the flag of Indian independence at Port Blair.
Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose
was and will always remain one of the brightest shining stars of India's
independence movement.
At a time when the likes of
Mahatma Gandhi and Pandit Nehru advocated for peaceful means of protests, Bose
popularly known as Netaji took matters into his own hand and went ahead with an
aggressive push for free India, even setting up a government in exile.
The island at that time was
liberated from British rule by Japan which captured it during the World War
-II.
On 29th December 1943, Netaji
accompanied by Sarvashri Anand Mohan Sahay, Captain Rawat - ADC and Col. DS
Raju, the personal physician of Netaji, landed at the Port Blair aerodrome in
the Andamans. He was received by the Japanese admiral at Port Blair. The
enthusiastic Indians and Burmese also accorded a warm reception to him.
Bose named Andaman Island as
Shaheed and Nicobar Island as Swaraj and appointed INA General AD Loganathan as
the governor of the Islands. Azad Hind Government was not merely a Government
in Exile anymore but had its own land, own currency, civil code and stamps.
By hoisting the Azad Hind
flag, Bose, the head of Provisional Government of Azad Hind also fulfilled his
promise that INA would stand on the Indian soil by the end of 1943.
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