The mystery behind Netaji's death

At last people of India got the answer for the question which was arising in their minds for so many years. Manoranjan Roy, from Mumbai, asked to Government of India under RTI act for which Home ministry of India has sent the answer. The question was "How, when and where Subhashchandra Bose died?". The internal Security Section of Home ministry gave the answer as below:

"Till now the Govt of India has formed three committees to do inquiry about the reason behind Netaji's death. In 1956, Shahnawaz committee was formed, in 1970 Khosala Committee and last in 1999 Mukharjee Committee. Shahnawaz committee came to the conclusion that on 18th August 1945 Netaji was expired in an plane crash near Tiahoku. Netaji's ashes are kept in a temple in Renkoji near Tokyo. Khosala committee also came to the same conclusion that Netaji died in a plane crash near Taihoku. But Mukharjee committee concluded something different. The committee accepted that Netaji is now no more, but the cause was different. It was not the plane crash and the ashes which has been kept in Renkoji temple near Tokyo are not of  Netaji's. The Govt of India accepted the conclusion derived by Shahnawaz committee and Khosala Committe completely, but did not agreed 100% upon the conclusion derived by Mukharjee Committee. It means the Govt of India accepted Mukharjee Committee's conclusion that Netaji is now no more, but it did not agreed with Mukharjee Committee's conclusion that Netaji did not die in plane crash and the ashes kept in Renkoji Temple are not of Netaji's."

Now even though the official stand of Govt of India has been cleared about Netaji's death has been cleared, it has neither satisfied the people of India nor it has uncovered the secret behind Netaji's death. And since  Govt of India is hiding so many things in this matter, lots of questions are still arising among the people of India. Govt's efforts have been completely failed to uncover the secret behind Netaji's death, because it has many reasons. Nobody means nobody has ever believed  in the news that Netaji has been expired in "that" accident, even in that period(means in 1945). Not even British govt or national leaders like Mahatma Gandhi. Most of the people believed that just to escape from British army or to avoid from charges of being declared as War Criminal, the story of plane crash accident would have been created. The inappropriate view of the then Congress leaders about Netaji, has created doubt among people's mind that the Govt of India has not made any serious efforts to know the truth. And the heroic way in which Netaji escaped from Britishers prison, was enough to believe most of the people that Netaji can create such stories of plane crash very properly. In fact at that time most of the people believed that Netaji is alive and will return to home soon. But even after independence when Netaji did not return, lots of stories about Netaji started spreading in India. Nearly 40 or 45 years back the senior reporters like Prakhad Keshav Atre(very well knows as Acharya Atre) made large efforts to reveal the secret. He challenged the conclusions of Shahnawaz Committee report, but he still could not come to the conclusion that the sadhu in Shoulmary Ashram was Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose or not.  

The Mukharjee Committee which did not believed that Netaji was killed in that accident came to know that the Soviet Russia's Govt has some secret references about the incident. Some stories like "Netaji himself went to Soviet Russia" or "Soviet Russia has arrested Netaji and kept him arrested" were spread at the time of independence. The Manoj Kumar Mukharjee committee wanted to study those references to know exactly how Netaji had traveled during that period of time, but the Central Govt of India not only refused the permission to the committee to study the secret references kept in Soviet Russian Govt, but also not made all the documents available to the committee which were kept with the Govt of India itself. Even though 10,000 files were available in this matter with Govt of India, it made only 993 files available to the committee. The interesting thing is all the documents which were made available to the Khosala Committee were not made available to the Mukharjee Committee. Few of the documents were lost, and 30 files about this matter were burned when the Khosala committee was carrying out their work(During the period of 1972). Who gave the instructions to do so, is their any record about it. When the Mukharjee committee asked these questions to the Govt of India, they did not answered to them.

When the Govt of India was not co-operating with Mukharjee Committee, Taiwan Govt officially informed Mukharjee Committee that "No plane accident has happened during the period of 14th August 1945 to 20th September 1945 in the areas near Taihoku." It clearly means there was not a single possibility of occurring Netaji's death in a plane crash near the Taihoku airport.
Dr. Bhatanagar has put all the important details mentioned in the Mukharjee committee in his book. Even former Prime Minister of India Mr. Moraraji Desai during his tenure of Prime-minister-ship also made a statement that it is hard to believe that Netaji Subhashchandra bose was died in that plane crash. Dr. Bhatanagar has also mentioned in his book that senior MP Satyanarayan Sinha claimed that Mrs. Vijayalaxmi Pandit and Dr. Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan(former President of India) has also met Netaji Subhashchandra Bose in Russia. Dr. Bhatnagar also said to find out the reason why the central Govt of India has behaved in a such a way with Netaji, we have to think about the role played by one of the most popular leader of India, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. During Independence movement when Netaji started rising as a youth leader of India, at that time only Jawaharlal Nehru started his political fight with Netaji. Sometimes openly and sometimes secretly.
The battle which Azad Hind Sena had started against british during the World War II(also when the independence was nearing), gained a huge popularity for Subhashchandra Bose among indian people. It is quite possible that Pandit Nehru started believing that the only person in India who can challenge his leadership  was Subhashchandra Bose. If this was untrue then he would have tried hard to reveal the secret behind Netaji's death. He would tried to convince Joseph Stalin(the then Russia's President) to release Netaji from Russia's prison. But instead of it the Nehru administration took a strange stand that if Netaji would return back to India, they will be hand over to British Government.
Jawaharlal Nehru's letter to Mr. Attlee:
Dear Mr. Attlee:
I
understand from a reliable source that Subhas Chandra Bose, your war
criminal, has been allowed to enter Russian territory by Stalin. This
is a clear treachery and betrayal of faith by the Russians. As Russia
has been an ally of the British-Americans, it should not have been
done. Please take note of it and do what you consider proper and fit.
Yours sincerely, 
Jawaharlal Nehru


The most important part in Dr. Bhatanagar's book is about Lal Bahadur Shastri and Tashkent Agreement. During the tashkent agreement, USSR was putting tremendous pressure on Lal Bahadur shastri to sign the agreement. USSR was telling India to return back the part which Indian army has captured from Pakistan during 1965 war. Lal Bahadur Shastri tried his hard, but have to bow in front of Russian Administration. When he came to know that now he has to sign on the agreement he put one condition to Russians that if they want him to sign the agreement, then they have to arrange his meeting with Netaji. At first Russians did not agree, but when Shastriji stick to his demand, at the end Russian agreed his demand.
When the two leaders meet, Shastriji requested Netaji to return back to India. Due to previous experience, at first Netaji was suspicious on his demand, but then Shastriji assured him about hissafety. Shastriji told Netaji that now at first he will tell this news to his wife. Netaji asked which news. Shastriji said"I will tell her that my countrymen will be unhappy because the agreement on which I have signed, but they will be happy when I will tell them the news about you".
Did shastiji told his wife about this news at that night? Or since he told the news, did the personalities in both the countries who do not want Neatji to return to India, did something, that causes Shastriji's death on the same night? Dr. Rajendramohan Bhatanagar claimed that Netaji was alive till January 1966. And he has proved that the conclusion drwan by Shahanawaz and Khosala committee that Netaji died in a plane crash in August 1945 was baseless. Also he had put some light on the suspicious death of Lal Bahadur Shastriji. Now if Govt of India is thinking that by answering the question raised by Manoranjan Roy, all the doubts are cleared, then Dr. Bhatanagar has proved that the Govt is wrong.