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I exhort you to sign this petition massively. Rash Behari Bose, Bagha Jatin and Masterda Surjya Sen are the iconic figures of our freedom struggle who have never been given their due recognition by the Government of India. Japan conferred on Rash Behari Bose their highest civilian honour outside of the royalty, the Second Order of Merit of the Rising Sun but India remained indifferent to his seminal revolutionary contributions. Having marginalised his achievements in the annals of India's freedom struggle, the Government made sure that the narrative of non-violent movement remained firmly fixed in the public imagination as being the galvanising force for India's liberation from colonial control.
Jatindranath Mukherjee, popularly known as Bagha Jatin, and Surjya Sen, endearingly addressed as Masterda, were martyrs to the cause of freedom but have been left largely out of the dominant discourse on India's freedom struggle. The attempted obliteration has not succeeded entirely because of the love which Bengal has ever borne for this trinity of revolutionary heroes. Were it not so, the Nehruvian dispensation would have erased them from entirely from the people's consciousness. It is, therefore, meet that these leonine leaders of our struggle for freedom be given a semblance of governmental recognition by way of them being awarded the Bharat Ratna. Arguments against this move will be many as devotees galore will take this belated bestowing of national honour as a symbolic settlement of a price for their peerless patriotism and a devaluing of their historic achievements, spontaneous and free for their motherland out of overflowing love for her. But there will be many others who will join me in this campaign to settle long overdue dues by way of honouring these heroes.
Written by Sugata Bose
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