To the commemorate the first flag hoisting by Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose on December 30, 1943, in Port Blair,the Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi will unfurl the tricolour at the look-alike spot during his scheduled visit to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in the last week of December.
The national flag will be unfurled at ‘Netaji Flag Hoisting Memorial’ in Port Blair.
PM Modi’s Andaman visit will be part of a slew of events to mark the 75th anniversary of Netaji’s Azad Hind government.
Adding that he will attend the event himself, Bose also demanded before the central government to rename the island to “Shaheed Swaraj Dweep”.
“It’s a justified demand because it was Netaji who hoisted the tricolor years before India achieved its Independence,” he said.
Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose was the first to reclaim liberation of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands from the British in 1943.
