Relationship between Mahatma Gandhi and Netaji Subash Chandra Bose behind politics/personal relationship/friendship between Gandhiji & Netaji

 Relationship between Gandhi and Netaji behind politics:

• However, beyond politics Subhas Chandra Bose admired both Mahatma Gandhi and Pandit Nehru, and had a very affectionate relations with them. In August 1942, when Mahatma Gandhi launched the Quit India movement, Subhas Chandra Bose was in Berlin. Subhas Chandra Bose told his close associate CN Nambiar that he needed to "be with Gandhiji". It was around the same time that Subhas Chandra Bose was in the process of the formation of Azad Hind Fauj to launch attacks on the British.

• Gandhiji called Netaji as the “Prince among patriots”.

• In his Azad Hind Radio message from Berlin, Subhas Chandra Bose had called the Quit India Movement of Mahatma Gandhi, the "non-violent guerilla warfare". It was no coincidence that Subhas Chandra Bose had named two of the Azad Hind Fauj brigades after Gandhi and Nehru.

• Another incident arising from the death of Kasturba Gandhi, the wife of Mahatma Gandhi in 1944 shows how much Subhas Chandra Bose admired them. He issued a statement from Myanmar, then Burma, declaring Kasturba Gandhi, "a mother to the Indian people".

• In his radio address, while launching attacks on the British forces, it was Subhas Chandra Bose who called Mahatma Gandhi the father of the nation. In his last radio address from Burma in 1944 that Subhas Chandra Bose said, "Father of our Nation! In this holy war for India's liberation, we ask for your blessings and good wishes." Thus Subash was the one who named Gandhiji as the Father of the nation and this phrase was used for the first time.

• Gandhi praises Bose and fasts for the release of the prisoners(Netaji’s forces ie Indian National Army(INA)), Nehru defends INA prisoners in court. Here Gandhiji uses the word Netaji for the first time.

• “Self-sacrifice and suffering, drive, integrity, and commitment to the national cause and the capacity to bind all Indians into one people were unsurpassed” Gandhi on Netaji.