Unlike Nehru, Hitler never betrayed his own nation: Netaji's grandnephew and BJP's Chandra Kumar Bose

On Saturday, Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose’s grandnephew and BJP Bengal leader Chandra Kumar Bose appeared to compare India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru with Adolf Hitler.

Calling Hitler ‘a nationalist who never betrayed his nation’, he compared him to Nehru saying that the latter wanted to ‘sit on the throne without fighting but sucking up to the British’.

He later defended his tweet by writing that while Hitler was a ‘devil, he wasn’t fraudulent like Nehru’.

He wrote on Twitter: “Well Hitler was a nationalist whose intention was to conquer Europe- but he never betrayed his nation. Nehru wanted to sit on the throne without fighting- but sucking up to the British. In short Nehru betrayed his nation.”

He added: “I'm not supporting Hitler-of course he was a devil- but he was not fraudulent like Nehru - who in the guise of being a nationalist was actually a British lackey. TheBritish tortured&killed millions of Indians over a period of 200 years-but #Nehru wined & dined with them!

Well Hitler was a nationalist who's intention was to conquer Europe- but he never betrayed his nation. Nehru wanted to sit on the throne without fighting- but sucking up to the British. In short Nehru betrayed his nation .

— Chandra Kumar Bose (@Chandrabosebjp) April 21, 2018

I'm not supporting Hitler-of course he was a devil- but he was not fraudulent like Nehru - who in the guise of being a nationalist was actually a British lackey.TheBritish tortured&killed millions of Indians over a period of 200 years-but #Nehru wined&dined with them!

— Chandra Kumar Bose (@Chandrabosebjp) April 21, 2018

Chandra Kumar Bose, grandnephew of the legendary freedom fighter, was handpicked by BJP to contest against West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee in the Bhawanipur constituency during the 2016 West Bengal Assembly elections.

Speaking to a TV channel, he had said: “I am here to stay, I have not come here to fight the elections. You see somebody has to lose. I started my work for the people of West Bengal. I think West Bengal has been neglected for 39 years, by the Left for 35 years and there's just been a change in the name in the 2011 Assembly Elections. There has been no basic change in governance. Bengal has the right to good governance."

Bose had come a distant third, garnering only 26,299 votes as Banerjee swept the constituency with 65, 520 votes.  The BJP won only 3 seats while TMC won a total of 2011.

Earlier, Chandra has gone on record to say that the BJP’s ideology was similar to that of his grand-uncle’s, and that the Congress had tried to erase Netaji’s ideals. He believes that BJP is bringing back ‘economic, political and social freedom’ to national politics, and says that was his main reason he chose to join the party.

He had said: “Subhas Chandra Bose was a nationalist. He played the role of a nationalist during India's freedom movement. He also spoke about India's socialism. So,  I think Bharatiya Janata Party is not so different from it. Also, any ideology always keeps changing. Netaji believed in modern science, he believed in development, his views were inclusive, and all these ideals are today with the BJP,” Bose said.

In the past he has hit out at Nehru for allegedly keeping tabs on Netaji’s family. He wrote on The Daily O: “Why was Nehru so interested in Amiya Nath Bose’s activities in Japan? To me it appears as if the Nehru government was aware that Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose did not die in an air crash on August 18, 1945. Nehru may have thought if Amiya Nath Bose’s activities could be tracked, they may get to know Netaji’s movements, as Amiya was one of the closest nephews of Subhas. My father Amiya Nath Bose did suspect that some kind of snooping was being conducted by the Nehru Congress government, but he never could imagine its sheer magnitude.”