In the twenty-odd years since Gandhi emerged as the nation’s leader, continued Bose, Indians had ‘learnt national self-respect and self-confidence’. They had also ‘now got a country-wide organisation representing the whole nation’. The ‘service which Mahatma Gandhi has rendered to India and to the cause of India’s freedom’, said Bose, ‘is so unique and unparalleled that his name will be written in letters of gold in our National History—for all time’.
