CHANGE.ORG ... 1 ... DECLASSIFY IB FILES ON NETAJI AND RE-TABLE IN PARLIAMENT THE JMCI REPORT FOR DELIBERATION
The IB Files on Netaji are still under wraps and need to be immediately declassified for the successful resolving of the Netaji disappearance mystery. Till these files are not declassified the Government of India cannot in fair face ask foreign governments like those of Russia, Japan, the United Kingdom, the United States, Myanmar, Vietnam, Singapore and China to declassify all their classified files on Subhas Chandra Bose. It is, thus, imperative that the public raises the strongest possible demand for such declassification by the GOI.
Netaji is one of the biggest icons of our freedom struggle and is considered by millions today as the true liberator of India from colonial shackles. His armed assault against British India in his bid to free his motherland from imperial bondage in effect precipitated a series of events that led to the freedom of India. Yet, Netaji simply vanished from everyone's sight on 18 August, 1945 and no one knows for certain what happened to him thereafter.
Eleven enquiry commissions have been set up by different governments of the world and the GOI itself has set up three such but the conclusive truth about Netaji's post disappearance whereabouts or fate has not been established. It is widely believed that the GOI is sitting on some crucial information which are catching the dust in its Intelligence Bureau Files. It is, thus, imperative that these files be brought to the daylight before the full view of the people. After all, Netaji is one of India's tallest leaders and, as such, he is national property, that is, the property of the people of India. They have, therefore, the fullest right to know as to what had happened to Netaji when he simply disappeared into the mist.
On behalf of countless like-minded citizens of India, I, therefore, raise the demand that the GOI declassify all files classified in the IB.
One more point and with this I end. The three enquiry commissions of India that were established to unravel the Netaji mystery have been unable to conclude on the leader's fate in definitive incontrovertible terms. The Shah Nawaz Committee and the Khosla Commission have given the unproven verdict that Netaji ides of an aeroplane crash at Taihoku Airport on 18 August, 1945. The Justice Manoj Mukherjee Commission Enquiry Report, however, categorically denied this conclusion and showed how the air-crash could not have taken place at all. But the JMCI remained inconclusive at the end of its six year long investigation as to Netaji's eventual fate. Today, it is widely believed that Netaji had lived as a mink incognito in Uttar Pradesh for over three decades. But there are detractors to this theory as well. Some others hold that Netaji, after losing the Second World War, had sought refuge in the erstwhile Soviet Union where he was tortured to death. And there are the standard protagonists of the air-crash theory as well which included the Government of India which summarily rejected the JMCI Report without sufficient debate on it in Parliament and without citing sufficient reasons for doing so.
The matter, therefore, stands not only unresolved but public discontent is by the hour rising against this apathy of the GOI to resolving this intractable issue. People generally feel that all files on Netaji ought to be declassified and there are thousands of such in governmental possession including the top secret IB Files. I reiterate, therefore, that the country must raise a tremendous demand for such declassification by way of adopting the first real step towards resolving this most contentious issue that may alter the destiny of our country by rewriting the history of the freedom struggle once all the facts about Netaji and the INA are known to all and sundry.
Thanking you,
Sugata Bose.
Jai Hind !
The IB Files on Netaji are still under wraps and need to be immediately declassified for the successful resolving of the Netaji disappearance mystery. Till these files are not declassified the Government of India cannot in fair face ask foreign governments like those of Russia, Japan, the United Kingdom, the United States, Myanmar, Vietnam, Singapore and China to declassify all their classified files on Subhas Chandra Bose. It is, thus, imperative that the public raises the strongest possible demand for such declassification by the GOI.
Netaji is one of the biggest icons of our freedom struggle and is considered by millions today as the true liberator of India from colonial shackles. His armed assault against British India in his bid to free his motherland from imperial bondage in effect precipitated a series of events that led to the freedom of India. Yet, Netaji simply vanished from everyone's sight on 18 August, 1945 and no one knows for certain what happened to him thereafter.
Eleven enquiry commissions have been set up by different governments of the world and the GOI itself has set up three such but the conclusive truth about Netaji's post disappearance whereabouts or fate has not been established. It is widely believed that the GOI is sitting on some crucial information which are catching the dust in its Intelligence Bureau Files. It is, thus, imperative that these files be brought to the daylight before the full view of the people. After all, Netaji is one of India's tallest leaders and, as such, he is national property, that is, the property of the people of India. They have, therefore, the fullest right to know as to what had happened to Netaji when he simply disappeared into the mist.
On behalf of countless like-minded citizens of India, I, therefore, raise the demand that the GOI declassify all files classified in the IB.
One more point and with this I end. The three enquiry commissions of India that were established to unravel the Netaji mystery have been unable to conclude on the leader's fate in definitive incontrovertible terms. The Shah Nawaz Committee and the Khosla Commission have given the unproven verdict that Netaji ides of an aeroplane crash at Taihoku Airport on 18 August, 1945. The Justice Manoj Mukherjee Commission Enquiry Report, however, categorically denied this conclusion and showed how the air-crash could not have taken place at all. But the JMCI remained inconclusive at the end of its six year long investigation as to Netaji's eventual fate. Today, it is widely believed that Netaji had lived as a mink incognito in Uttar Pradesh for over three decades. But there are detractors to this theory as well. Some others hold that Netaji, after losing the Second World War, had sought refuge in the erstwhile Soviet Union where he was tortured to death. And there are the standard protagonists of the air-crash theory as well which included the Government of India which summarily rejected the JMCI Report without sufficient debate on it in Parliament and without citing sufficient reasons for doing so.
The matter, therefore, stands not only unresolved but public discontent is by the hour rising against this apathy of the GOI to resolving this intractable issue. People generally feel that all files on Netaji ought to be declassified and there are thousands of such in governmental possession including the top secret IB Files. I reiterate, therefore, that the country must raise a tremendous demand for such declassification by way of adopting the first real step towards resolving this most contentious issue that may alter the destiny of our country by rewriting the history of the freedom struggle once all the facts about Netaji and the INA are known to all and sundry.
Thanking you,
Sugata Bose.
Jai Hind !
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