Indian PM Modi hails forgotten heroes in dig at opposition party


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  • Sunday, 21 Oct 2018

FILE PHOTO: India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi waves towards the crowd during Vijaya Dashmi, or Dussehra, festival celebrations in the old quarter of Delhi, India, October 19, 2018. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Sunday that many of the country's heroes from World War Two had been deliberately ignored, with his comments interpreted by many as an attack on the opposition Congress Party.

In a speech in front of Delhi's historic Red Fort, Modi said that Subhas Chandra Bose, one of the key figures in India's battle for independence from Britain, had been marginalised in modern India.

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