PM Modi hoists tricolour at Red Fort to honour Subhas Chandra Bose

* Prime Minister Narendra Modi joined a flag-hoisting ceremony at the Red Fort on Sunday to mark the 75th anniversary of the 'Azad Hind government' headed by Subhas Chandra Bose.

* PM Modi speaking at the Red Fort said that Netaji had promised an India where everyone has equal rights and equal opportunities. He had promised a prosperous nation which was proud of its traditions, development in all areas. "He had promised to uproot 'divide and rule'. Even after so many years those dreams remain unfulfilled," he said

* Traditionally, the prime minister hoists the national tricolour at the historic Red Fort on Independence Day on August 15.

* Survivors of the Azad Hind Fauj or Indian National Army (INA) Netaji’s grand-nephew and BJP Bengal vice-president Chandra Kumar Bose had planned to unfurl the tricolour at Red Fort and had written to the PM to join them in the celebrations.

* The event was attended by the Union minister Mahesh Sharma and Indian National Army (INA) veteran R.S. Chhikara among others.

* Subhas Chandra on October 21, 1943, established the provincial Azad Hind government in Singapore.

* On August 14 the next year, the Bahadur brigade of INA, led by Col Saukat Ali Malik, captured Moirang, a town in Manipur along the Indo-Myanmar border.

* Moirang remained under the Azad Hind government for four months during which its currency and stamps were used. The provincial government had been acknowledged by 11 countries, including Japan, Nanking China, Thailand, Burma, Italy, Germany and the Philippines.