FABRICATION OF LIES, FALSIFICATION OF HISTORY

The Netaji Secret Files lying with the Government of West Bengal are going to be declassified at last this fateful Friday, 18 September, 2015. What emerges is a matter of conjecture now but what is already an established fact is that Netaji did not die in the supposed air-crash at Taihoku Airport on 18 August, 1945. In fact, there had been no such air-crash at all at Taihoku Airport that day. The Justice Mukherjee Commission Report categorically denies the Air-crash Theory of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose's death as there is no conclusive evidence to support the thesis. The Commission also could not find the record of Netaji's cremation at the local crematorium where Netaji had supposedly been cremated after having succumbed to third degree burn injuries following the rumoured air-crash. Given the lack of sufficient evidence to justify the Air-crash Theory of Netaji's supposed death, the Mukherjee Commission debunked the theory and, though dismissed in a most unparliamentary way in Parliament by the then Congress Government led by Dr. Manmohan Singh, opened the Pandora's Box of doubt about the official version regarding Netaji's disappearance and the entire tale fabricated by the Gandhi-Nehru brigade about the negligible contribution of Netaji and his Indian National Army towards India winning her independence.

And, as it so often happens that the misdeeds of the past are exposed by subsequent generations of truth-seekers, that the best covered-up secrets eventually see the light of day despite the diabolic designs of devious dupers, so also in this poor country of ours, pillaged and plundered as it has been by unscrupulous foreign occupiers for centuries and then dismembered and, so, desecrated by complicit connivers conspiring for collaborative control of the collective consciousness of citizens, truth is at long last surfacing. The very buoyancy of truth makes its triumph inevitable in the fullness of time and it seems that three generations of fabrication of lies and falsification of history by the power-mongers at the helm of national affairs could neither stamp out suspicion about their malicious intent nor stifle the conscience of an awakening nation as it throws up the challenge to the founding fathers to validate their stance on this supreme patriot this nation has ever seen.

Electoral compulsions notwithstanding, the West Bengal Government has done a commendable act in declaring the Netaji Files open for public scrutiny. In a thriving democracy people may not be kept out of important national issues and it is a travesty of democratic justice that the Netaji Files should have remained 'classified' for so long. When the country prides itself on the golden principle of 'Satyameva Jayate' (Victory to Truth) and the Mahatma had made 'Satyagraha' (Enthusiasm for Truth / Truth Force) his ideological and political weapon to supposedly oust the British from India, why has the Government of India resorted to the darkest lies over the protracted period of close to 70 years to obliterate the very memory of India's greatest hero who was the true liberator of India from the shackles of the British? The nation seeks an answer from the perpetrators of this crime and popular sovereignty demands that the Congress Party who initiated and carried on this malicious misinformation campaign to the people of this land about India's greatest hero should come up with adequate explanation and expose the masterminds behind this smear campaign however tall they may be in the hierarchy of the Party. Else, history will avenge the injustice meted out to Netaji and his I.N.A. whose deeds shine not in letters of gold but in drops of blood spilled from their throbbing hearts aching for freedom.

Friday is but 48 hours away and the countdown has started for the resurrection of the hero. The stage is set, the die is cast, the tide is on, now who can thwart its course? Netaji looms large on the national scene once more as he had during those tumultuous days when his shadow darkened the wits of the British at the I.N.A. Trials at the Red Fort and sent them home scurrying for cover. Jai Hind!