Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose never visited Manipur. He seems to have now, 78 years after members of his Indian National Army (INA) hoisted the Tricolour at Moirang during the peak of the World War II.
Among those who hoisted the flag on April 14, 1944, was Mairembam Koireng Singh, a local member of the INA. He went on to become Manipur’s first Chief Minister in 1963.
His grandson is Mairembam Prithviraj Singh, the Bharatiya Janata Party candidate for the Moirang Assembly seat. He had won the seat as a Congress candidate in 2012 but lost it to the BJP’s Pukhram Sharatchandra Singh, a former IAS officer.
