Some 64 files on the mystery of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose have been de-classified today by the West Bengal Government. The Chief Minister Ms. Mamata Banerjee has taken a bold and right step to unravel the truth hidden in these files. We need not deliberate the political angle here, even if there is one. Two things conclusively points towards certain facts coming out from the files as was long rumored;
i. Netaji might have not died in the Taiwan plane crash and was very much alive for a considerable period after independence.
ii. Bose’s family was intensively snooped for decades even after India became Independent nation.
The developments and related debates in the recent past and now raise few more questions;
i. Congress has kept the truth deadly buried in the files so long for 70 years, now started demanding the declassification of the files lying with central government?
ii. Are the entire set of files kept intact for 70 years or any files or papers destroyed pertaining to the Bose mystery by the earlier governments of Congress regime?
The above points raise further questions, which will sooner or later be answered by the circumstances and wheel of time as truth cannot be buried forever. Every Indian is entitled to know the true history of a true son of India and a greatest freedom fighter and must demand for it.
1) When the Central Government will declassify the remaining files in it’s’ possession?
2) There is no slightest doubt in the minds of any Indian that Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose was a true freedom fighter. His way was supreme sacrifice for the nation. The famous asking “Tum mujhe khoon do, main tumhein aajadi dunga – You give me blood, I will give you freedom” and taking the arms against the mighty British empire is well known. Bose was a threat and an enemy of British empire. Snooping on his family by the British empire before Independence is well justified. But what was the need of snooping after the independence? Was he also an enemy of the then Indian government post independence? Was his family a threat to the then governments? Or Netaji did not die in the plane crash and was much alive and his return to the country would have posed a threat to the then governments? Or was there some tacit understanding of Jawarlal Nehru with British even after the Indian independence?
3) The answers to points no 2 above points to the real possibility that Netaji was much alive in some parts of the world like Soviet Union or China and the theory of his death in a plane crash was deliberately cooked by the then government to achieve certain political objectives. It also means that the manipulated and deadly distorted history has been fed to the people of India for years. Are we Indians fooled for so long?
The shoots of truth have already started coming out and the whole truth will emerge, no doubt sooner or later.
