Subhash Chandra Bose formed an alliance with the Muslim League to destroy the Holwell Monument in Calcutta during 1939-40. After the failure of Bose-Mahasabha alliance, Bose entitled his alliance with the Muslim League of being a larger vision and strategic purpose. Muslim League's objective in allying with Bose was simply to employ him as a useful tool to keep Congress and Hindus divided, while at the same time consolidating itself in Bengal as the sole Moslem representative. Indeed, Bose would continue his labours to ‘woo them to his side’ at all costs, and it is towards that direction that he spent his energies in the next political program that he took up: Muslim League led agitation to remove the Holwell Monument.