Subhas mystery:Russian connection

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Subhas mystery: The Russian connection

 

Atul Rawat

 

After the disappearance of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose at the end of

the Second World War, the Nehruvian secularists sought to hijack both

his patriotic legacy and his popularity. At the same time his

contribution to the national movement was also sought to be diluted.

Anti-Subhas and pro-British Communists who were publishing such

cartoons of Subhas in which he was shown as a donkey on whom Japanese

leader Tojo was riding, had a field day both under Nehru and later,

under his daughter Indira Gandhi. They were awarded for their

unpatriotic deeds with plum postings and patronage to their line of

academics. It is equally true that this grateful nation never forgot

that great "prince among patriots", despite large-scale propaganda of

his so-called "death".

 

One commission after another, quite in line with Nehruvian tactics,

have not been able to convince the people that their "prince" died in

that so-called air crash. That is why it was but natural that when a

nationalist government came to power, the leaders of which could

legitimately claim the patriotic legacy of Vivekanand-Aurobindo-

Subhas lineage, it would make its own serious attempt to find out the

truth. It was with this background that Justice M.K. Mukherjee

Commission was set up by the BJP-led Government. Prof Purabi Roy,

Head of Department of International Relations at the Burdwan

University, Calcutta, has revealed before the Commission that she

found that there were certain files in Paddolsk archives in the

Russian Military where the statements of Stalin and his associates

were recorded.

 

These were kept out of bound for almost all. But one Alexander

Kolosinikov, who was a major general with the Warsaw Pact and also a

member of the Institute of Oriental Studies in the Academy of

Sciences had seen some of these files. This Major General Alexander

Kolosinikov told Prof Purabi Roy four years ago that Netaji was alive

at least a year after his reported "death". It seems that Stalin and

his associates like Molotov were considering what to do with Subhas

as late as October 1946, i.e. more than one year after his so-

called "death" in a "plane crash". Prof Purabi Roy had also conducted

some research in the London Public Records Office. Among the various

documents that she was able to lay her hands on, she found two dates

for probable death of Netaji. One is in July 1946 and the other falls

in October 1946. An interesting aspect of the revelations is that

Prof Roy has been in knowledge of these facts for the last four

years. She had shared this all-important secret only with the Forward

Bloc leaders the late Chitta Basu and Jayant Roy in 1997.

 

She seems to have even submitted a written undertaking from

Kolosinikov. Now after the death of Comrade Chitta Basu this could

not be traced. Why these people did not reveal these all-important

facts about the disappearance of one of the greatest sons of mother

India must be made public. Is there some politics behind this also?

Did the Forward Bloc leaders think that revealing these facts might

hurt the Communists? What is the hidden agenda? The leaders and the

distinguished professor need to answer these questions to the nation.