Kolkata: The State and Central Governments is going to celebrate Netaji Subash Chandra Bose’s 125^th birth anniversary celebrations on Saturday in Kolkata separately. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is going to participate in the BJP organized Subash Chandra Bose’s 125^th birth anniversary celebrations.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamatha Benerjee will lead a 6-km march in Kolkata, from Shyam Bazar in the north to Red Road in the heart of the city. Mamatha Benerjee said “I request people from all sections of society and Indians who live abroad to blow a conch shell or do something similar at 12.15 pm, the time of Netaji’s birth, on January 23. I request Indian missions across the globe to do it as well,” she appealed earlier this month.
The state and the centre have already clashed over the declaration of ‘Parakram Diwas’. As per the Central Government Netaji’s birth anniversary will be known as Parakram Diwas. The state government had requested the centre to declare it as ‘Desh Nayak Diwas’ as Rabindranath Tagore had bestowed the title of Desh Nayak on Netaji.
The Chief Minister’s march in north Kolkata will be a show of strength and an effort to showcase the Trinamool Congress’s efforts to portray itself as a party of Bengal, while it terms the BJP leaders who fly in as “outsiders”.