THE NETAJI DISAPPEARANCE MYSTERY ... 1
It is our national shame that we are content to carry on with our day-to-day activities while the fate of our liberator, Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, remains unknown. Shame on our Government that it yet officially upholds the Air-crash Theory and, so, takes no substantial initiative to unravel the mystery !
Despite the debunking of the air-crash account by the Justice Mukherjee Commission Inquiry, the official position of the GOI irrationally remains that Netaji had met with his end on 18 August, 1945 at Taihoku airfield from third degree burns resulting from a burning crashing aircraft. That there is no circumstantial evidence to support it in the form of Airport Record or Crematorium Record, that the name of Ichiro Okura who died on 19 August, 1945 from heart attack could not have been the pseudonym of the Prime Minister of the Provisional Government of Free India and the Supreme Commander of the Indian National Army, nor could death from burn be identical with death from cardiac arrest and that, too, on the wrong day, that the Taiwan Government had in 1955/56 issued an official statement to the effect that there had been no air-crash on 18 August, 1945 at or in the vicinity of Taihoku Airport, that the official enquiry commission on behalf of the GOI (JMCI) visited the purported crash site but could elicit not even a clue, leave aside evidence or proof, that would substantiate the narrative of the crash -- despite such utter lack of evidence, that the governments from UPA (2004 --2014) to NDA (2014 -- 2019...) continue to deny the findings of the JMCI is a pointer to the ethical hollowness of the official stand on the disappearance issue of our premier patriot. That hired historians have added on to the misinformation propagated by official backing, covert and overt, have helped delude the nation further as to the truth of the whole affair.
It is here that we, the ordinary citizens of this country, have much to do by way of creating mass awareness and, so, a massive pressure on the GOI to re-table the JMCI Report in Parliament for deliberation on it. When Shivaraj Patil, the UPA Home Minister in 2004, had dismissed the findings of the JMCI in Parliament by way of submission of the Government's 'Action Taken Report' to that effect, he had violated every norm of parliamentary democracy by arbitrarily and peremptorily doing what he did on behalf of his government without allowing even so much as a prior parliamentary discussion on it, which would naturally lead one to suspect sinister motivations governing the action and dastardly designs directing it. And what were they? The question needs answering but for that we need to probe.
Written by Sugata Bose
It is our national shame that we are content to carry on with our day-to-day activities while the fate of our liberator, Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, remains unknown. Shame on our Government that it yet officially upholds the Air-crash Theory and, so, takes no substantial initiative to unravel the mystery !
Despite the debunking of the air-crash account by the Justice Mukherjee Commission Inquiry, the official position of the GOI irrationally remains that Netaji had met with his end on 18 August, 1945 at Taihoku airfield from third degree burns resulting from a burning crashing aircraft. That there is no circumstantial evidence to support it in the form of Airport Record or Crematorium Record, that the name of Ichiro Okura who died on 19 August, 1945 from heart attack could not have been the pseudonym of the Prime Minister of the Provisional Government of Free India and the Supreme Commander of the Indian National Army, nor could death from burn be identical with death from cardiac arrest and that, too, on the wrong day, that the Taiwan Government had in 1955/56 issued an official statement to the effect that there had been no air-crash on 18 August, 1945 at or in the vicinity of Taihoku Airport, that the official enquiry commission on behalf of the GOI (JMCI) visited the purported crash site but could elicit not even a clue, leave aside evidence or proof, that would substantiate the narrative of the crash -- despite such utter lack of evidence, that the governments from UPA (2004 --2014) to NDA (2014 -- 2019...) continue to deny the findings of the JMCI is a pointer to the ethical hollowness of the official stand on the disappearance issue of our premier patriot. That hired historians have added on to the misinformation propagated by official backing, covert and overt, have helped delude the nation further as to the truth of the whole affair.
It is here that we, the ordinary citizens of this country, have much to do by way of creating mass awareness and, so, a massive pressure on the GOI to re-table the JMCI Report in Parliament for deliberation on it. When Shivaraj Patil, the UPA Home Minister in 2004, had dismissed the findings of the JMCI in Parliament by way of submission of the Government's 'Action Taken Report' to that effect, he had violated every norm of parliamentary democracy by arbitrarily and peremptorily doing what he did on behalf of his government without allowing even so much as a prior parliamentary discussion on it, which would naturally lead one to suspect sinister motivations governing the action and dastardly designs directing it. And what were they? The question needs answering but for that we need to probe.
Written by Sugata Bose
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