A Congress tweet on Wednesday on the occasion of the death anniversary of iconic freedom fighter Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose faced objections from West Bengal’s ruling Trinamool Congress.
TMC leader Kunal Ghosh wrote on the social media site tagging the Congress post that the date of death of Netaji has not been established.
There is a strong objection to this tweet. This date of death is not proven. Both the Congress and the BJP government did not try to ascertain the real facts about Netaji’s last moments. Don’t play with the sentiments of Bengal and India. Prove death first. Publish classified files. https://t.co/FmjSoZ3oud— Kunal Ghosh (@KunalGhosh Again) 18 August 2021
Analysts say the Trinamool Congress has attempted to generate political capital from the legacy of the iconic revolutionary, and this has led to several clashes with the Bharatiya Janata Party. But its tussle with the Congress comes at a time when top leaders of both the parties are trying to form an opposition alliance to take on the BJP in the 2024 general elections.
On January 16, 1941, Bose, who had been placed under house arrest by the British in Kolkata after being released from prison in December 1940, fled in the dark of night, apparently never to return. Three main theories have been debated by the public about Netaji’s disappearance over the years: his death in a plane crash in Taiwan in 1945, his death in Russia, and the appearance of a monk in Faizabad, Uttar Pradesh in the 1970s. , called Gumnami Baba, who many believed was Bose in disguise.
The Government of India has launched three investigations: the Shah Nawaz Inquiry Committee of 1956, the Khosla Commission of 1974 and the Justice Mukherjee Commission of Inquiry (JMCI) of 2005. The first two concluded that Bose had died in a military hospital in Taihoku. Taiwan on August 18, 1945, as a result of an accident on take-off of a Japanese military aircraft in which he was traveling. He also said that the mortal remains kept at Renkoji Temple in Tokyo belonged to him.
The Justice Mukherjee Commission concluded that Netaji “as alleged was not killed in the plane crash” and that “the ashes in the Japanese temple do not belong to Netaji”. However, it was said that “Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose is dead”.
A classified 60-year-old Japanese government document on the death of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose made public in 2016 concluded that the great freedom fighter died in a plane crash in Taiwan on August 18, 1945, supporting the official version. A seven-page report in Japanese and a 10-page translation in English led to the conclusion that Netaji met in an air crash on August 18, 1945, and died the same evening in a hospital in Taipei.
The report noted in its ‘Outcome of the Inquiry Outline’, “Soon after take-off, the airplane in which he (Bose) was boarding fell to the ground, and he was injured.” It further recorded that “at around 3.00 pm” he entered the Nanmon branch of the Taipei Army Hospital”; and that “he died at around 7.00 pm”. The findings also stated that “on 22 August, his last The rites (at Taipei City Crematorium)” were performed.
In a more detailed description of the incident, the report said, “After the aircraft took off and rose about 20 meters above the ground, one petal of the three-petal propeller on the left wing suddenly broke, and the engine collapsed… The airplane, later unbalanced, crashed into a pile of ballast, near the airport strip” and “was engulfed in flames in an instant … Mr. Bose, engulfed in flames, from the plane got off; Adjutant Rahmin (Colonel Habibur Rahman) and other passengers tried to take off his clothes… His whole body was seriously injured with burns.”
The central government had declassified several files related to Bose in 2016 and in 2017 in a Right to Information (RTI) reply they confirmed that he had died in the accident.
In 2019, the Press Information Bureau had declared August 18 as the date of Netaji’s death, but that too was contested. PIB’s tweet had to be withdrawn after the protest.
A section of the Bose family believes that he died in a plane crash on August 18, 1945, while another does not accept this and has demanded further questioning.
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