Grand Statue of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose at India Gate // Some Information about Netaji and the statue // 2022 Current Affairs //

 Grand Statue of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose at India Gate:

A grand statue of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose will be constructed in front of India Gate in New Delhi, To mark India's indebtedness to him.

The statue will be made of granite and will be installed under the canopy that earlier housed a statue of George V, which was removed earlier. The dimension of the statue will be 28 feet by 6 feet.

Though the statue will take some time to be made so in between that a hologram statue of Netaji will be unveiled by PM Modi at India Gate on 23rd January, the 125th birth anniversary of Netaji. 

Earlier the government announced that Netaji's birth anniversary, January 23, would mark the start of Republic Day celebrations. *Netaji's birthday celebrated as "Parakram Divas".

SPECIAL NOTES FOR ASPIRANTS:

• 16th January 1941 Netaji escaped from home arrest and reach Germany.

• Subhas Chandra Bose was addressed as Netaji in Germany, in 1942.

• Netaji's wife- Emilie Schenkl

• On October 21,1943 Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose announced the formation of the ‘Arzi Hukumat-e-Azad Hind’ or the provincial government of free India in Singapore and declared war on the British Empire.

• In 1944 during one of his radio broadcasts from Singapore Netaji addressed Gandhiji as the"Father of the Nation".

• Political Guru of Netaji- Deshbandhu Chittaranjan Das.