Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose has a special place in our hearts, says Mamata Banerjee. (Archive)
Calcutta:
West Bengal Prime Minister Mamata Banerjee asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to help him declare Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose’s birthday on January 23 as a national holiday.
He also urged Prime Minister Modi to personally see to it that the Center takes appropriate measures to give a conclusive picture of the disappearance of the freedom fighter on August 18, 1945.
“Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose has a special place in our hearts. I would like to request your kind personal intervention so that the Central Government declares January 23, Netaji’s birthday, a national holiday and also takes the appropriate measures to take conclusive steps to take conclusive results. position on the issue related to Netaji’s disappearance … “, wrote the Chief Minister.
In her two-page letter, Ms. Banerjee emphasized that the state had long been demanding that January 23 be declared a national holiday.
He asked the prime minister to give people “the long-awaited opportunity to find out what happened to their great leader: his inspiration and his passion.”
Born in 1897, Netaji’s 125th birthday will be celebrated next year.
Various reports have claimed that Netaji boarded a plane from the Taihoku airport in Taiwan that crashed and killed the leader. However, there is no confirmation of his disappearance, as experts, over the years, have developed different theories about his disappearance.
The Center had commissioned three investigations, the 1956 Shah Nawaz Commission of Inquiry, the 1974 Khosla Commission and the 2005 Justice Mukherjee Commission of Inquiry (JMCI), to shed light on the mysteries surrounding the death or disappearance. . by Netaji.
The first two commissions had concluded that Netaji died after a plane crash in Taipei, while the third investigative panel challenged the claim and suggested that Bose was alive after that.
On September 1, 2016, the Narendra Modi government had declassified 100 reports on Bose. Banerjee had released 64 files related to the freedom fighter in September 2015. None, however, could help draw conclusions.
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