‘Netaji made the British nervous about Indian Army’

New Delhi, Jan 21 : Netaji Subhas Chandra Boses 125th birth anniversary will be celebrated with great fanfare on January 23.
Ahead othe special day, IANS spoke to Shakti Sinha, Director of the Atal Bihari Vajpayee Institute of Policy Research and International Studies, MS University, Vadodara, who is also a distinguished fellow at India Foundation.
Sinha was the former Director of the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library (NMML) and was part of the Indian Administrative Service from the 1979 batch. He had also served as a Joint Secretary in the Prime Minister’s Office in the past.
Excerpts from the interview: Q: Why is Netaji so important in BJP’s scheme of things? A: If you would have been brought up in the 60s and 70s, there existed a narrative that freedom was won under the leadership of Mahatma Gandhi while Jawaharlal Nehru was the next big leader. As a result, many others who contributed to the freedom struggle went unmentioned.