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Mixed Reactions to Declassifying the Files
While Bose’s family members have welcomed the move to declassify the Netaji files, Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen criticised the Centre. He accused the government of declassifying the files for petty, political gains.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, however, said it was our responsibility to share Netaji’s truth with the younger generation. In her tweets, she also said Bose must be given the title of ‘Leader of the Nation’.
Indian Soldiers Who Refused to Fight Soviets Were ‘Shot Dead’ By Nazis
A 1969 newspaper clipping that emerged from the archives of the Netaji files declassified earlier today, tell the story of how Indian soldiers who formed a division within the German army were shot dead for refusing to fight the Soviets.
Brother Did Not Believe the Crash Theory
The 1956 Shahnawaz Khan Enquiry Committee that probed Netaji’s death submitted a report that said he died in an air crash on 18 August 1945. Netaji’s brother, SC Bose, who was also a part of the committee, however, disagreed with this view.
The 1956 inquiry commission report included a picture of the crash site.
Who Was Prof Samar Guha?
Three-time Lok Sabha MP Samar Guha was a revolutionary and an associate of Subhas Chandra Bose and Jayaprakash Narayan. He had been in detention and prison for 11 years during the days of British rule in India. He was a Chemistry Scholar and a former teacher of Chemistry of Jadavpur University, Calcutta.
Congress Questions the Govt’s Intentions
After the Netaji files were declassified, Congress leader Anand Sharma addressed the media, raising doubts about the government’s intentions.
- The way the PM has carried this out, raises doubts about the intentions of the Government of India, nation needs to understand this.
- The BJP can’t claim any leader who were on the forefront of the freedom struggle.
- We have said from the very beginning that this is a deliberate controversy.
- The Congress will expose and take action against this mischievous fake letter (allegedly written by Nehru to Atlee).
- We will take all measures to punish people once identified. Whoever is taking ownership must come forward.
Why the Delay in Conferring Bharat Ratna to Netaji, Asked His Daughter
Questioning the delay in honouring Netaji Bose with a Bharat Ratna, his daughter Anita Pfaff wrote to the Indian government in 1992 asking,
PM Modi Officially Declassifies Netaji Files at National Archives
PM Modi has arrived at the National Archives where he released digital copies of 100 files related to Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, following the government’s decision to declassify files on the freedom fighter.
Here’s a glimpse of the declassified files.
Did Nehru Call Bose England’s ‘War Criminal’?
India Today TV has reportedly accessed a classified letter written by former PM Jawahar Lal Nehru, in which Nehru referred to Bose as war criminal.
The letter was written to the Prime Minister of England, Clement Attlee, on December 27, 1945, four months after the plane crash in Taipei.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will today release digital copies of 100 files related to Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, following the government’s decision to declassify files on the freedom fighter.
The files, digitised and given “preliminary conservation treatment” by the National Archives of India, will be released on Netaji’s 119th birth anniversary.
The Ministry of Culture said the National Archives plans to release digital copies of 25 declassified files on Netaji every month.
The first lot of 33 files were declassified by the Prime Minister’s Office and handed over to the National Archives on December 4, 2015.
The National Archives received 990 declassified files pertaining to the Indian National Army (INA) from the Ministry of Defence in 1997.
Here’s a video report after the announcement was made last year.
The Other Side of Subhas Chandra Bose
This article briefly recapitulates the events from the time Bose came under the spell of the Mahatma as a youth leader of the Indian National Congress (INC) till he fell out with him in his second term as President INC culminating in his ‘great escape’, this month, exactly 75 years ago.
Central Files Unlikely to Contradict Netaji’s Death: Historian Leonard Gordon
Reiterating his claim that Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose died in a plane crash in 1945, historian Leonard Gordon on Friday asserted that the declassification of central government files will not throw up any evidence to the contrary.
Gordon said he would be surprised if the files provide any information disproving that he died in the air crash in Formosa (now Taiwan) on 18 August 1945.
Gordon had penned Brothers Against the Raj: A Biography of Indian Nationalist Leaders Sarat and Subhas Chandra Bose.
Gordon also disapproved of historians and a large section of the Bose family who have debunked the air crash theory.
Netaji Bose Was Cremated in Taipei, Claims British Website
A website, www.bosefiles.info, has been coming out with serialised ‘revelations’ backing the theory that the Indian revolutionary leader died in a plane crash on 18 August 1945, in Taiwan.
In its latest post on Thursday, the site, created by London-based journalist and Netaji’s grand nephew Ashish Roy, referred to the evidence provided by Tan Ti-Ti, who was in charge of issuing cremation permits in Taipei, together with that of other local officials, to buttress its claim.
If Not Netaji, Then Who Was Gumnaami Baba?
Netaji’s daughter, Anita Bose, had dismissed what she called “asinine theories that Netaji survived the plane crash in Taipei in 1945 and lived in the mountains as Gumnami Baba”.
But the theory refuses to die.
In 1985, a lead story in Naye Log newspaper asked the question – Faizabad Mein Agyaatvaas Kar Rahe Subhaschandra Bose Nahin Rahe?? (Subhas Chandra Bose who was living in Faizabad no more?).
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