New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is going to participate in the 125^th birth anniversary of Netaji Subash Chandra Bose in Kolkata on Saturday. Netaji’s birth anniversary is celebrated as “Parakram Diwas”.  Prime Minister Narendra Modi will preside over the inauguration of a permanent exhibition on Subash Chandra Bose at the Victoria Memorial. Modi will release a book ‘Letters of Netaji’. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will reach Kolkata from New Delhi via Assam.
PM Modi’s event in the evening at Victoria Memorial will see Usha Uthup perform Rabindranath Tagore’s ‘Ekla Cholo Re’ along with a choir. A group of schoolchildren will perform ‘Kadam Kadam Barhaye Ja’, a song which was composed as a marching tune for Subash Chandra Bose’s Indian National Army in 1942. Singer Papon will present a song titled ‘Subashji Subashji’.

The fourth song at the event is another patriotic song, ‘Dhono Dhane Pushpe Bhora’. The final song followed at the event will be ‘Subh Sukh Chain’, the Anthem of the Indian National Army, which will be presented by Usha Uthup, Papon and Soumyojit, joined by singers like Annwesha, Somlata and others.