Bengal politicians, including Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, Forward Bloc general secretary Debarata Biswas and Chandra Bose the grand nephew of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, on Sunday demanded an “impartial, thorough and comprehensive inquiry” to ascertain the mystery behind the great leader’s disappearance on August 18, 1945.
“Netaji went on a flight from Taihoku Airport in Taiwan” on this day in 1945 “only to disappear forever,” the Chief Minister tweeted adding “the people have a right to know about the great son of the soil.”
Banerjee’s tweet came against the backdrop of assertions appearing in the Gujarat BJP’s official website which referred to Netaji’s death on August 18 in a plane crash.
Giving his reactions Chandra Bose, who is a BJP leader too, demanded a “comprehensive inquiry” into the disappearance mystery of one of the greatest sons of India. He said, about writing a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking a thorough inquiry to unravel the mystery once and for all. Similarly former MP and general secretary of Forward Bloc, a party that Bose had launched demanded an “impartial inquiry” into his so-called disappearance. “Three commissions — Shahnawaz Committee, Khosla Commission and Mukherjee Commission — were instituted first in 1956, then in 1970 and yet again in 2005 but none of them could throw substantial light on the issue,” he said adding his party would “never accept any story of Netaji’s death until that is proved with evidence.”