National Security Adviser Ajit Doval said on June 17 that India would not have been partitioned if Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose was there at the time. He said that Muhammad Ali Jinnah said that he could accept only one leader and that is Subhas Chandra Bose. Jinnah was the founder of Pakistan.
Describing Subhas Chandra Bose as a “highly religious man”, the NSA said he was the only leader who had the audacity to challenge Mahatma Gandhi and refused to beg for freedom from the British.
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