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Kolkata: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will probably be in Kolkata on 23 January to attend two programmes commemorating Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose’s a hundred and twenty fifth start anniversary.

In a six-hour-long journey, Modi will attend the valedictory session of a day-long seminar on Bose, titled ‘Revisiting the legacy of Netaji Subhas in twenty first century’, within the Nationwide Library, and a light-and-sound present on the Victoria Memorial Corridor. He’ll land within the metropolis at 3 pm and depart for Delhi round 8.40 pm.

In line with the organisers of the programmes, Modi may even be conducting an necessary assembly throughout an hour-long free slot.

The seminar — which is a joint collaboration between the tradition ministry, Delhi-based INA (Azad Hind Fauj) belief, Nationwide Library, and the Institute of Social and Cultural Research (ISCS) — will probably be attended by 150 chosen invitees, together with Bengali intellectuals and academicians.

Prahlad Singh Patel, the Minister of State for Tradition, may even attend the seminar whereas the inaugural speech will probably be delivered by famous scholar and historian Purabi Roy.

Nonetheless, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is just not a part of the invitee record as of now.

Banerjee is a member of the high-level committee led by Modi that was constituted to plan Bose’s start anniversary in early January however she additionally didn’t attend the committee’s assembly to debate the modalities and actions on 15 January in Delhi.

The committee was shaped on 9 January and consists of distinguished residents, historians, authors, consultants, members of the family of Subhas Chandra Bose and eminent individuals related to the INA.

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Bose’s members of the family not invited to seminar

The invitee record to the seminar additionally doesn’t embody Bose’s members of the family, BJP chief Chandra Bose, and historian and former TMC chief Sugata Bose.

In line with Chandra, he needed to talk on Bose’s imaginative and prescient however was not accommodated for a similar.

“I used to be referred to as by a senior member of INA (Indian Nationwide Military) belief and was requested to talk on Netaji’s childhood. However I needed to talk on his imaginative and prescient. I do know no one does that. All of us converse all repetitive issues about him, however none actually need to concentrate on his imaginative and prescient and his ideology. I expressed my want, however I’m but to get any affirmation as of now,” Chandra advised ThePrint

In the meantime, Sugata, a former Trinamool MP, confirmed to ThePrint that he was not invited to any of the programmes. He’s additionally not a part of the high-level committee regardless of heading the Netaji Analysis Bureau in Kolkata.

Anirban Ganguly, director of the Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Institute and member of the committee, stated: “Sugata Bose is there on many committees associated to Netaji. And he’s allergic to Prime Minister Modi. So, there is no such thing as a level inviting him. He leads a gaggle of intellectuals in opposition to Modiji.

“Individuals could have inclinations to completely different political ideologies, however individuals like him compromised with their skilled and educational duties for political positioning. There are a number of different necessary family members like late Chitra Ghosh, who have been by no means delivered to fore. We are going to embody such family members,” Ganguly advised ThePrint.

One other distinguished scholar Anuj Dhar, who has authored six books on Bose, together with India’s Greatest Cowl Up, has additionally not been invited to any of the programmes.

“I’ve no reference to the programmes organised by the state and Centre. I might nonetheless demand that the federal government ought to now acknowledge Netaji because the hero who freed India. Yearly, naming a practice or a stadium or a street after him doesn’t do justice to the good icon,” Dhar advised The Print.

“The demise thriller must be settled now. No authorities is worried about that. I might additionally say that the central authorities’s declare of de-classifying all recordsdata is a lie. There’s nonetheless one thing hidden. So, I’m not part of this election politics. I would like the hero to be acknowledged.”

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Seminar and Victoria Memorial Corridor present

The seminar within the Nationwide Library will concentrate on Bose’s life and legacy and can represent three segments  — ‘Subhash and India’s Freedom Wrestle’, ‘Saga of the INA and its Supreme Leaders’ and ‘Philosophy of Netaji’.

The programme will host audio system from the US, Vietnam, Bangladesh, Myanmar and Singapore. INA veterans and students have additionally been included within the seminar.

Main Basic (retd) G.D. Bakshi, Air Chief Marshal Arup Raha, historian J.D. Extra, Professor Abhijit Choudhury, a scholar on Bose from Meghalaya, and Professor Nirban Basu from the College of Calcutta, will probably be delivering lectures on the topics, stated Arindam Mukerjee, director of ISCS.

Chatting with ThePrint, Mukherjee stated, “We now have invited the famous nationwide and worldwide students who will converse on Netaji. It isn’t a political programme. It’s purely educational in nature. PM will attend the valedictory session.”

In the meantime, the light-and-sound present within the Victoria Memorial Corridor will embody 130 members of the Bose household, together with Chandra Bose. A number of distinguished individuals similar to West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar, who can also be part of the high-level committee, will attend the present.

CM Banerjee has additionally been invited to the present however it’s unclear if she is going to attend.

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