Guest guest Posted May 18, 2006 Report Share Posted May 18, 2006 We are very very angry, says Netaji's niece From New India Press KOCHI: Irked by the Centre's scant regard, Netaji's family is all set to act firmly on the official inquiry about his mysterious disappearance. "We are very angry. Parliament has put it aside without even having a discussion on the subject. We take the issue very seriously." This was the immediate reaction of Chitra Ghosh, Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose's niece, while speaking to this website's newspaper about Justice MK Mukherjee Commission report on the mysterious disappearance of Bose which was tabled in Parliament on Wednesday. While the government rejects the Commission's finding that Netaji did not die in a plane crash in Taiwan in 1945, the family members accept the one-man Commission's findings. "He has proved it conclusively. The myth that Netaji died in a plane crash has been proved wrong," said Chitra. Chitra Ghosh, a retired political science professor, is the daughter of Sarath Chandra Bose, Netaji's elder brother, who was a minister in the first interim Nehru Cabinet. She came to Kochi, along with her husband Subimal Ghosh, on a private visit in October. Then she had shared with this website's newspaper her fond memories as a 10-year-old girl about Bose. It was during that period he left Kolkata with a firm conviction that "One can't get freedom across the table," according to Chitra. Chitra Ghosh, who wrote `Political Biography of Subhas Chandra Bose', believes that official history writing failed to recognise Netaji's contributions. "The government's reluctance to discuss the subject is yet another proof of it," she said. Even as the 61-year-old mystery of Bose's disappearance gets more complicated, Chitra believes her uncle will get a "rightful place in history as truth cannot be suppressed forever". Bose did not die in plane crash: Mukherjee Commission New Delhi, PTI: The Mukherjee Commission on alleged disappearance of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose has inferred that he did not die in a plane crash in 1945 but Government today said in the Lok Sabha that it did not agree with the findings. The Government also disagreed with the Commission's report that the ashes in Renkoji Temple in Japan were not of that of Netaji. The Justice M K Mukherjee Commission concluded that Bose "is dead", "he did not not die in the plane crash, as alleged", "the ashes in the Japanese temple are not of Netaji" and that "in the absence of any clinching evidence a positive answer cannot be given" to the terms of reference. The views of the Government were given in an Action Taken Report (ATR) along with the three-volume report of the Commission set up by the previous NDA Government in 1999 to inquire into the circumstances concerning departure of Bose from Bangkok in August 1945, his reported death in an air crash and subsequent developments connected therewith. The ATR, tabled by Minister of State for Home S Regupathy along with the panel's findings, said Government has examined the Commission's report submitted to it on November 8 last year "in detail and has not agreed with the findings that -- Netaji did not die in a plane crash and the ashes in the Renkoji Temple were not of Netaji". The Commission said in the absence of any clinching evidence to prove that 'Bhagwanji-Gumnami Baba was Netaji, the question whether he (Netaji) died in Faizabad (in Uttar Pradesh) on September 16, 1985 as testified by some of the witnesses, need not be answered". < Terms of Service. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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