No Partition if Netaji had been alive, says NSA Doval

HAD Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose been alive, India would never have got partitioned, remarked National Security Advisor Ajit Doval on Saturday.

- RAJESH KUMAR THAKUR

Delivering a speech at the Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Memorial Lecture organised by ASSOCHAM here, Doval, who was recently hailed an “international treasure” by a US diplomat, said that Netaji was determined to challenge the tyranny of British rule in India. “And India would not have been partitioned, had he been alive at that time,” he said.

Doval commented that Netaji had said he “will not compromise for anything less than full independence and freedom”.