For Mamata Banerjee’s TMC, Netaji is an icon representing local Bengali ‘asmita’. For the BJP, which many observers feel is TMC’s key opponent in the upcoming polls, Netaji is a symbol of national pride whose legacy, the saffron party says, was neglected to benefit the Nehru-Gandhi family.
"Eighty years ago Subhas Chandra Bose as Congress president had sent a medical mission to China led by Dr M Atal," Sugata Bose, an eminent academician and the grandnephew of Netaji, said at a seminar: 'China-India Connections in Modern History' at Netaji Research Bureau last evening.