Subhas Chandra Bose did not die in air crash: Saini

Rupnagar, Sep 4 (PTI) All India Forward Bloc nationalsecretary VP Saini today contested the claim of a London-basedwebsite that Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose died in a plane crashin Taiwan in 1945, terming it "wrong" and "part of theconspiracy" against the revolutionary leader. He also refuted the claim of the website that it hadaccess to vital declassified documents regarding Netaji’sdisappearance. Saini, also the Netaji Subhas Kranti Manch chief, claimedthat the documents mentioned by the website were from a book,titled ‘Conspirators, Abductors and Killers of Netaji’, whichwas written more than 24 years ago. He said whatever information and documents on the allegedair crash, in which Netaji was feared killed, were supplied byJapan, had been proved wrong. He said Taiwan had informed India in writing that no aircrash had occurred at Taihoku on August 18, 1945. Hence, therewas no question of Netaji’s death in it. Justice Mukherjee Commission of Inquiry had also reportedthat Netaji did not die in the air crash, Saini said andaccused certain members of the Bose family of "joining hands"with the government and others in the "conspiracy againstNetaji" because of their "personal reasons or vestedinterests". He alleged that the Centre, with the connivance of somemembers of the Bose family, was trying to bring to India the"so-called" ashes of Netaji from Renkoji temple in Tokyo butthe followers of the revolutionary leader will never let thathappen. He appealed to the Centre to try to find the truth ofNetaji’s fate "honestly" and give the national hero his due.PTI CORR VJ RC SKRC