Poll politics over Netaji's heritage | Bengal elections

Barely a few months before the crucial polls, the BJP has turned Netaji’s 125th birth anniversary on 23 January into a political launchpad, triggering another round of bitter turf war with the ruling Trinamool Congress. Lacking a neta for its Bengal campaign, the BJP has decided to resurrect the legacy of Netaji. Its victory plan in Mamata Banerjee’s bastion now involves a classic case of “icon-jacking” after the Centre through a gazette notification declared Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose’s birthday on January 23 as Parakram Diwas or valour day. For more, on Neteji's legacy war in poll-bound West Bengal, watch the show The Long Story.