New Delhi, Jan 23: President Pranab Mukherjee Thursday paid homage to Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose on his birth anniversary.

Mukherjee paid floral tributes in front of a portrait of Netaji at the Rashtrapati Bhavan.

The firebrand nationalist leader was born in Cuttack district, in what’s now Odisha, in 1897, and is believed to have died in a plane crash in Taiwan on Aug 18, 1945.