COMMISSION, NOT STATUE ALONE, PLEASE

COMMISSION, NOT STATUE ALONE, PLEASE

The Netaji disappearance mystery remains as yet unresolved. The Union Government is rendering all sorts of token service to Netaji's memory by here declaring his birthday as 'Parakram Divas' and there erecting his statie at India Gate. But the real service that it ought to do by way of pursuing the Netaji mystery to a successful closure, it is not doing. Token service cannot do justice to his cause. The IB files on Netaji must be declassified, the Russian and the Japanese Governments must be made to disclose all files on Netaji and a new Commission must be set up to conclude the unfinished work of the Mukherjee Commission whose work had got impeded and whose report had finally unduly and unceremoniously got rejected by the then Union Governments. This must be redressed and the Government must by way of remembering Netaji on his 125th birth anniversary set up a fourth Inquiry Commission on Netaji to do it.

Written by Sugata Bose