All-India Forward Bloc
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| Party Leader |  Subhas Chandra Bose (Free India) |
| Founder(s) | Subhas Chandra Bose |
| Founded | May 3rd, 1939, 22 years ago |
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| Political Position | Left-Wing |
| Colours | Red |
| Slogan | "Give me blood, and I shall give you freedom" |
The All-India Forward Bloc (AIFB) is the main ruling party of the Azad Hind Government. Led by Subhas Chandra Bose, it aligns with left-wing nationalism ideas. However, factions have begun to form.
Origins[edit | edit source]
The Forward Bloc of the Indian National Congress that formed on May 3, 1939 by Subhas Chandra Bose in Makur Unnao , Uttar Pradesh, who had resigned from the presidency of the Indian National Congress (INC) on 29 April after being outmaneuvered by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi.
The formation of the Forward Bloc was announced to the public at a rally in Calcutta.
With Bose proclaiming that all who were joining, must never turn their back to the British and must fill the pledge form by cutting their finger and signing it with their blood.
Initially, the aim of the Forward Bloc was to rally all the leftwing sections within the INC and develop an alternative leadership inside the Congress. Bose became the president of the Forward Bloc and S.S. Kavishar its vice-president. A Forward Bloc Conference was held in Bombay in the end of June.
At that conference, the constitution and programme of the Forward Bloc was approved. By July 1939 Subhas Chandra Bose announced the Committee of the Forward Bloc.
The committee made up of Subhas Chandra Bose as president, S.S. Kavishar from Punjab as its vice-president, Lal Shankarlal from Delhi, as its general secretary and Vishwambhar Dayalu Tripathi and Khurshed Nariman from Bombay as secretaries. Other prominent members were Annapurniah from Andhra Pradesh, Senapati Bapat, Hari Vishnu Kamath from Bombay, Pasumpon U. Muthuramalingam Thevar from Tamil Nadu and Sheel Bhadra Yagee from Bihar. Satya Ranjan Bakshi, was appointed as the secretary of the Bengal Provincial Forward Bloc.
In August the same year, Bose began publishing a newspaper titled Forward Bloc. He travelled around the country, rallying support for his new political project. From its formation up to 1943, the party was totally against British Imperialism and conducted multiple acts of terrorism on British administration.
The next year, on 20–22 June 1940, the Forward Bloc held its first All India Conference in Nagpur. The conference declared the Forward Bloc to be a socialist political party, and the date of 22 June is considered as the founding date of the party by the Forward Bloc itself. The conference passed a resolution titled 'All Power to the Indian People', urging militant action for struggle against British colonial rule. Subhash Chandra Bose was elected as the president of the party and H.V. Kamath as the general secretary.
Initially invited into the INC's Indian government after British withdrawal in 1943, it would see the AIFB find itself being part of the new independent Republic of India. However, with the political fallout of the war with Afghanistan, and Bose being scapegoated of causing the war's failure, Bose would leave the INC with the AIFB, establishing a rival government in Calcutta to challenge the INC's leadership.
The Party in itself[edit | edit source]
The Party has been at the Head of the Azad Hind Government since 1943. The All-India Forward Bloc, just like the INC, divides itself into 3 similar ideogically but totally different morally wings.
Subhasist Wing[edit | edit source]
Center Wing[edit | edit source]
Marxist Wing[edit | edit source]
The Marxist Wing of the AIFB is led by Lakshmi Sahgal. It is an isolationist nationalist and communist wing popular with all the social classes, and also with minorities.