‘Don’t distort history for political mileage’: Netaji’s grand nephew to Kangana Ranaut.

Chandra Kumar Bose told HT’s Kumkum Chadha that Netaji would be ‘dismayed’ to see the present situation in country, division among communities. Chandra Kumar Bose, the grandnephew of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, has slammed actor-turned-politician Kangana Ranaut for her recent claim that the freedom icon was the first prime minister of India. “Pehle mujhe ye baat aaj clear karne dijiye. Jab hume azaadi mili toh the first Prime Minister of India, Subhash Chandra Bose, woh kahan gae? (Let me clear this first. When we gained independence, where did the first Prime Minister of India, Subhash Chandra Bose, go),” Ranaut, the BJP’s Lok Sabha candidate from Himachal Pradesh’s Mandi, had said in an event. In an exclusive conversation with Hindustan Times’ Kumkum Chadha, Chandra Kumar Bose urged Kangana Ranaut “not to distort history for her political gains or to appease her party leadership”. “As far as her statement on the liberator of India, Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose is concerned, it is incomplete. Netaji was certainly the head of state, the prime minister of a united, undivided India. The important factor is united and undivided, which she missed out,” Bose said. “He (Netaji) also happens to be the last prime minister of an undivided and united India. You need to study Netaji’s life and times, his books that are written by him. I would request not only Kangana, but all persons who are interested in Netaji, to study his own writings to understand his concept of India, ideology and vision for the country,” Bose, who was BJP’s vice president in West Bengal in 2016, and had quit the party last year, said.