NA from Singapore to Imphal, earlier than ending at Red Fort.

Bose additionally established a military hierarchy in Azad Hind Fauj – Lt Col Shah Nawaz Khan was the Chief of General Staff, Major PK Sahgal was the Military Secretary, and Major Habib ur Rahman was the Commandant of officers’ coaching faculty. The INA additionally had an all-women regiment called “Rani of Jhansi Regiment”. Estimates say that underneath Bose, the power of Azad Hind Fauj rose, once again, to 40,000 troopers. In visible media, the INA has been the topic of numerous documentaries. Directed by Kabir Khan and produced by Akhil Bakshi, it adopted what was referred to as the Azad Hind Expedition between 1994 and 1995, retracing the route taken by the INA from Singapore to Imphal, earlier than ending at Red Fort.

Function Of Bose

"But now our authorities is altering all that," he mentioned while addressing an occasion on the historic Red Fort to mark the seventy fifth anniversary of the proclamation of the 'Azad Hind Sarkar' by Bose. In November 1945, the first of the trials in opposition to the captured soldiers of Bose’s Indian National Army was publicly held. [newline]This led to the primary encounter between British-Indian and INA troops in Arakan in Burma in January-February 1944. Three battalions of five corporations every, called the “Bose Brigade,” fought alongside the Japanese. During the encounter, INA troopers reportedly used "trickery and civilian disguise" to overpower British Indian sentries and aided the Japanese in capturing a divisional headquarters. The 1st Infantry Regiment drew many civilian volunteers from Burma and Malaya and was outfitted with the largest share of the heavy armament that the INA possessed.

After Bose had disappeared from Calcutta, a British war-time sabotage agency arrange by PM Winston Churchill had been ordered to ‘eliminate’ him. Donning the well-known Azad Hind Fauj cap, the Prime Minister hoisted the national flag on the Red Fort and unveiled a plaque to mark the anniversary. ​​TMC MP Sukhendu Sekhar Roy, during a press meet right here, mentioned the e-book, edited by historian P C Gupta, remains to be awaiting launch, as both the UPA and the NDA governments on the Centre didn't take any initiative to get it revealed.