Commemoration of First Flag Hoisting by Netaji

Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, while in exile, launched a valiant struggle to free India from British rule under the banner of Provisional Government of Azad Hindi. This effort was supported by the Japanese. During the Second World War, the Japanese Imperial Force occupied the Andaman & Nicobar Islands on 23rd March 1943. Thereafter the Japanese Prime Minister on 6th November 1943, at the Assembly of Greater East Asiatic Nations, in Tokyo, declared that the Andaman and Nicobar Islands would be transferred to the Provisional Government of Azad Hind. Soon after, Netaji visited Andaman Islands as Head of the State of Provisional Government of Azad Hind from 29th -31st December 1943. Islanders gave him a warm welcome on his arrival. During his visit he stayed at the former British Chief Commissioner's official residence on Ross Island. Netaji hoisted the Tricolour for the first time on the Indian Soil on 30th December 1943, declaring the Islands as the first Indian Territory to be freed from the colonial rule. This was a unique act in the history of British Raj and the Indian freedom Movement. On the occasion of 75 years of First Flag on 30th December 2018, the Hon'ble Prime Minister of India Shri Narendra Modi ji hoisted the National Flag at Flag Point. Now every year a function is organized at Flag Point commemorating the first flag hoisting by Netaji on 30th December function.