NEW DELHI: In a series of tweets on Monday, controversy-courting former Supreme Court judge Justice Markandey Katju described Subhas Chandra Bose as a “Japanese agent” and used the epithet “British stooge” for Rabindranath Tagore .

“I am soon coming to Kolkata where I will give a speech with a scathing att-ack on that British stooge Tagore and that Japanese agent Subhas Chandra Bose in a talk in some University or institution. That will be throwing a stone in a beehive, and send many Bengalis swarming like hornets for my blood. But they must know the truth. For too long they have been taken for a ride,” read his complete message.

In a Saturday post on his blog, Satyam Bruyat, Katju wrote, “In my opinion Bose was a highly ambitious person, and he became a Japanese agent because neither Gandhi nor Hitler had given him any ‘bhaav’.”