May 1945 : INA Surrendered

“In Rangoon, I did not surrender. I went into the countryside. I lived there for sometime. Then I met a man called Amritlal Seth, he was the man who really made the INA an important factor in Indian political life. So we gave him all the information we had. Mr. Kanapal (?), the civilian head of the chaps, and Mr Bahaduri who were living together, called me to go and get all the material I could get. And we gave Amritlal Seth, a newspaperman, a war correspondent, all the information we could get. And he said – I almost remember the words – he said ‘I must go back to India and meet the Congress leaders before the meeting at Wardeck (?)’. So he went. Soon after that, the Congress adopted the INA. The INA became a kind of political symbol of the recovery from the “Quit India” resolution. And it snowballed. Riots, demonstrations and the other forms of protest for the release of the detained INA leaders.”