Through PTI
KOLKATA: Chandra Kumar Bose, the grand nephew of Netaji, has suggested the Centre to convey again to the rustic the purported ashes of the nationalistic chief stored at Renkoji temple in Japan this yr, which is his a hundred and twenty fifth beginning centenary yr and order a DNA take a look at whether it is technically imaginable.
He suggested that the ashes be introduced again by way of August 18, the date wherein Netaji reportedly died in an air crash at Taihoku in 1945.
“Netaji’s ambition used to be to go back to an unbiased India as the top of a victorious progressive military. Cases didn’t permit that to occur. The easiest way to honour his needs on this a hundred and twenty fifth Delivery Centenary yr is to convey his stays by way of 18th August 2022 to repose in Indian soil. The Govt of India can do this. If technically imaginable, a DNA take a look at could also be performed to substantiate,” Chandra Kumar Bose mentioned in his letter to High Minister Narendra Modi on Friday.
He mentioned if the ashes are introduced again, Netaji’s daughter Anita Bose Pfaff will have the ability to carry out the closing rites and convey the long-awaited closure for his circle of relatives and the folks of India.
“On account of this procrastination (in bringing again the ashes), bizarre tales proceed to flow into which demean the would possibly and popularity of Netaji, together with in motion pictures. This will have to no longer be allowed to proceed,” Bose, who’s a member of the prime stage central committee to have a good time Netaji’s a hundred and twenty fifth beginning anniversary and a BJP chief, mentioned.
“The federal government is bound that the stays at Renkoji Temple are the ones of Netaji’s, which is why the Govt of India contributes to the prices of keeping up the urn containing the stays,” the veteran social activist mentioned in his letter.
The West Bengal Govt had in September 2015 declassified all recordsdata in its ownership associated with Netaji, whilst the Centre did so with the rest Netaji recordsdata from January 23, 1916 until November 2016, the letter mentioned.
“Detailed find out about of those recordsdata divulge that the basis motive of reports in the back of Netaji’s demise ‘thriller’ and resultant interest, has been our lack of knowledge of sure important information,” he wrote.
There are conflicting theories concerning the disappearance of Netaji as many surmise that he didn’t die in any air crash as reported by way of the British govt and have been in hiding afterwards.
Bose in his letter mentioned that during all 11 investigations have been held in reference to the disappearance of Netaji and ten of them agreed that he had died within the crash.
“Had there been the slightest hint of Netaji’s survival of their investigations, the Anglo-American forces do not need stopped pursuing him…The civil administrative wing of the Indian Nationwide Military and the Indian Independence League, on account of the investigation performed by way of them too discovered that Netaji died in a aircraft crash,” he mentioned within the letter to the top minister.
The Indian Nationwide Military used to be an armed drive shaped by way of Indian freedom opponents/collaborators and Japan on 1 September 1942 in southeast Asia throughout International Battle II.
Its goal used to be to safe Indian independence from British rule.
The Indian Independence League used to be a political organisation based by way of Indian nationalists to organise the ones residing outdoor the rustic looking for the elimination of British colonial rule.
It had functioned from the Nineteen Twenties to the Forties and its actions have been performed in quite a lot of portions of Southeast Asia.
Bose, who had joined BJP in 2016 however has no longer been lively in recent years, mentioned the one exception used to be the Justice Mukherjee Fee of Inquiry which performed the inquiry 55-60 years after the incident.
It mentioned Netaji didn’t die within the crash however may no longer say when, the place and the way the liberty fighter died, Nor may the Fee supply any certain proof to give a boost to its declare, Bose, additionally the Convenor of The Open Platform for Netaji, mentioned.
The reviews of the investigations have been stored hidden from the folks till their declassification, which printed that the Govt of India had all the time recognized that Netaji had died within the aircraft crash.
This got here out within the open in its respond to an RTI in 2017, the letter mentioned.
Director of Netaji Analysis Bureau and grand nephew of Netaji, Sugata Bose may no longer be contacted concerning the call for to convey the purported stays.
The All India Ahead Bloc, a birthday celebration based by way of Netaji, hasn’t ever accredited the air crash concept and refused to simply accept the ashes stored in Renkoji temple are that of Netaji.
Leaders of the birthday celebration had on a number of events demanded a complete fledged inquiry into the thriller in the back of the disappearance of Netaji after August 18, 1945.