Subhash Chander Bose desired Dictatorship after Independence

Recently the allegations of spying upon the relatives of Subhash Chander Bose after the Independence of India were leveled against Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India.

Subhash Chander Bose

These allegations gave an opportunity to some political parties including BJP and RSS who find a conspiracy in every good thing that, in reality, Bose was more patriot than Nehru.

Every day someone from somewhere claims that whatever unfortunate happened with Bose and how Nehru was responsible for it. Any word or thought coming against this misconception and propaganda and in defense of Nehru is immediately termed as anti-national and treason. It is all a conspiracy to denigrate Nehru.

But the fans and self-styled champions of patriotism of Bose forget and avoid the treaties and alliances of Bose with Germany and Japan.

A book “Indian Struggle” was written and published by Bose in 1935 in England. Here Bose wrote that “India needs a political system which should have a blend of Fascism and Socialism. He termed it Communism.

Bose traveled to Rome in 1935 to present a copy of his book to Mussolini, the dictator of Italy. Being a great admirer of Mussolini, Bose always cherished to follow the ideals of the dictator throughout his life.

Bose had the reactionary temperament and that is why he could not pull on with the peace-loving leaders like Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru. But his clash with the two Indian leaders of freedom movement did not begin in 1935. It all had started much earlier.

Bose organized the annual conference of Indian National Congress in 1928 at Calcutta. There during the Conference, he conducted a full Guard of Honor in complete military style with more than 2000 volunteers. Some of the volunteers were in the officers’ dress having metal badges on their shoulders. For himself, Bose got a uniform in the style of a British military official stitched by a British company operating from Calcutta. Bose was carrying the baton of Field Marshal. This made the Congress Conference more dramatic and less political.