In the closing stage of the Civil Disobedience movement, Subhash horrered around the working class movement.
He inspired the students arid the underprivileged, towards a radical militant temper. This eventually facilitated the formation of the Congress Socialist Party within the framework of the congress organisation. Subhash confined himself progressively, to the discussions on the conducting of India’s struggle for freedom, looking for new styles and strategies to intensify it and getting impatient for a show down with the authorities.
In April 1939 he left the congress and organised the Forward Bloc and the Kisan Sabha. In November 1941 he escaped from India and surfaced in Berlin, where he met Hitler. He was of the view that one’s enemy’s enemy is one’s friend. He organized the Azad Hind Fauj or the Indian National Army with the help of his Japanese allies, to fight for the freedom of India. In dealing with the role of Subhash during this period we have to take note of the fact that what he did was not due to his support to Facist Germany or expansionist Japan but for India’s freedom.
Subhash lost his mark on the congress by lying emphasis on the industrialisation of India and planned economic growth on the Soviet pattern. He was in fact instrumental in the formation of a National Planning
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Committee of the Congress. He appeared to have identified the manner in which the anti-imperialist struggle had to rise above all sectional considerations of class and creed by emphasising the actual sufferings of the people. He seemed to know how the struggle must be escalated and strengthened by rallying all the victims of the imperialist rule, especially the toiling people.
The consequent process of radicalisation of the national movement owed substantially to the vision and exertion of Subhash Chandra Bose.