Overview
- On December 30, Prime Minister Narendra Modi recalled Subhas Chandra Bose unfurling the Tricolour in Port Blair in 1943 and hailed his courage and valour.
- Modi cited a Sanskrit subhashita to stress that freedom rests on capability, toil, justice, and collective resolve.
- Government accounts present the 1943 hoisting as declaring the Andaman and Nicobar Islands the first liberated territory of India.
- Bose, then leading the Azad Hind Fauj (INA), is credited with the Port Blair flag-hoisting, which reports say followed his 1941 escape from British surveillance.
- Institutional tributes include the Sankalp Smarak in Port Blair, dedicated on December 29, 2021 by Lt Gen Ajai Singh, while Jammu’s LG Manoj Sinha today hoisted the flag and inaugurated a Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Flag Point.