Consider the following statements regarding Indian National Army (INA).
1. The idea of INA was first conceived in Malaya by Mohan Singh.
2. Indian prisoners of war handed over by the Japanese were recruited into INA.
3. Subhash Chandra Bose reorganized INA in Singapore in 1943.
Which of the above statements are correct?
Explanation:
*The Indian National Army (INA; Azad Hind Fauj)(Lit: Free-Indian Army) was an armed force formed by Indian nationalists in 1942 in Southeast Asia during World War II.
*The army was first formed in 1942 under Mohan Singh, by Indian PoWs of the British-Indian Army captured by Japan in the Malayan campaign and at Singapore.
*It was revived under the leadership of Subhas Chandra Bose after his arrival in Southeast Asia in 1943. The army was declared to be the army of Bose's ArziHukumat-e-Azad Hind (the Provisional Government of Free India).