Netaji Jayanti

'Day of Valour'), is a national event celebrated in India to mark the birthday of the prominent Indian freedom fighter Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose.

[5] It is an official holiday in West Bengal,[9] Jharkhand,[10] Tripura, Assam and Odisha.

[2] The Forward Bloc[12] and the family members of Subhas Chandra Bose demanded Government of India to declare Netaji Jayanti as Deshprem Divas (Day of Patriotism) and Mamata Banerjee demanded to declare it as Deshanayak Divas (Day of National Hero) and a national holiday.

[13][14] But on 19 January 2021, the government has announced that it will be celebrated as Parakram Divas (Day of Valour) every year.

[15][16] The members of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose's family, the ruling Trinamool Congress and the Left parties in West Bengal reacted sharply to the centre's decision to celebrate the icon's birth anniversary on 23 January as Parakram Divas and not by the names they had proposed.