Grand-nephew of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose. | Photo Credit: ANI

New Delhi: Grand-nephew of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose and vice-president of the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) West Bengal unit, Chandra Kumar Bose launched a scathing attack on the Congress party for distorting the history of India's freedom struggle and converting the country into a dynastic dictatorship.

Talking to ANI, Bose said, "Right from 1857 onwards, with the sepoy uprising, Mangal Pandey's Andolan, then Shaheed Bhagat Singh's sacrifice, Rajguru, Binoy Badal Dinesh, and many others, this entire history of India's freedom struggle has been completely distorted and obliterated by the Congress regime. The Congress party has converted India into a dynastic dictatorship."

Bose berated India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and said that Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose was the first prime minister of undivided India, while Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru was the first PM of the divided dominion, not of united India. "So this history must be told to the youth of our nation," Bose further added.

Bose also blamed Pandit Nehru and the Congress leaders for opposing the Azad Hind government and Azad Hind Fauj with the connivance of the British when they wanted to come to Delhi and hoist the national tricolour at the Red Fort in 1944.

Earlier on Sunday, after unfurling the national flag at the Red Fort to mark the 75th anniversary of the 'Azad Hind government', Prime Minister Narendra Modi said "that several good sons of the Nation like him (Bose) as well as Ambedkar (B. R. Ambedkar) and Patel (Vallabhbhai Patel) were forgotten in the favour of one family."

Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose had established the provincial Azad Hind government in Singapore today.