Karnataka BJP MLA Basangouda Patil said that Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose was the first Prime Minister of India and not Nehru. MLA Basana Gowda, who participated in a public meeting in Bangalore, gave a speech ‘Jawaharlal
Nehru was not our first prime minister. Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose was our first prime minister. He commented that the British left India because of Netaji. Netaji said that the British had shown what fear is and that is why they left the country. Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose said that the country did not get independence because of the hunger strike.
When the British left the country after the Second World War, Netaji was the first Prime Minister of independent India when the country declared its independence. In August, the ruling Congress government in Karnataka would collapse in six or seven months.
He said that there is an internal fight in the Congress and that will lead to the downfall of the Congress. Recently Nehru’s comments saying that Netaji was not the first Prime Minister of India became a controversy.