The Odisha CM offered floral tribute to Veer Surendra Sai’s statue inside the Odisha Legislative Assembly premises on the auspicious occasion of his 206th birth anniversary. He was accompanied by I&PR Minister Atanu Sabyasachi Nayak, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Bikram Keshari Arukh and Bhubaneswar North MLA Priyadarshi Mishra among others.
Bose had been a leader of the younger, radical, wing of the Indian National Congress in the late 1920s and 1930s, rising to become Congress President in 1938 and 1939. He later founded Azad Hind Fauz and fought against the British Army. He “died” under mysterious circumstances on August 18, 1945. However, there is no evidence to suggest that he died on that day in a plane crash, as reported by Japanese newspapers first.
Veer Surendra Sai was an Indian freedom fighter who sacrificed his life fighting against the British and died in obscurity. Surendra Sai has a demi-god status in Western Odisha region. He was born on 23rd January 1809 at Khinda, Sambalpur, Odisha. He breathed his last at Asirgarh Jail on 28 February 1884.