நேதாஜி - Netaji

வங்கச் சிங்கம் நேதாஜி போஸ் எப்படி தப்பினார். அவருடைய இறுதிகாலம் எப்படி அமைந்தது? எங்கே வாழ்ந்தார்? என்ற முடிச்சுகள் இதுவரை அவிழ்க்கப்படாமலே இருந்தன.

அவரைப்பற்றிய கோப்புகள் அனைத்தும் கமுக்கமாக, மிக ரகசியமாக வெளிப்படுத்தாமல் இருந்தது. இதுகுறித்து தொடர் கோரிக்க்கைகளும் எழுந்தது.

அவருடைய உறவினர்கள் மத்திய அரசைப் பலமுறை வலியுறுத்தியும், பிரிட்டிஷ் அரசுக்குக் கொடுத்த உத்திரவாதத்தை மீறி அவற்றை வெளியிடமுடியாது என்ற கருத்தையும் சொன்னது.

ஆனால், நேற்றைக்கு (17-08-2015) இது குறித்தான அறிக்கைகள் மேற்குவங்க அரசுகளின் முயற்சியால் கல்கத்தாவில்  வெளியானது.  1964 பிப்பிரவரியில் அவர் இந்தியாவுக்குத் திரும்பி இருக்கலாம் என்ற கருத்து உள்ளது.

தனது 67வது வயதில் ரஷ்யாவிலிருந்து சீனாவழியாக இந்தியாவுக்குத் திரும்பு இருக்கலாம் என்று அமெரிக்க உளவுத்துறையின் அறிக்கை மூலம் தகவல்கள் கிடைத்துள்ளன.
செஞ்சீனத்திலும் நேதாஜி இருந்தார் என்றும் தகவல்கள் உள்ளன.

சி.ஐ.ஏ அறிக்கையின் படி இம்மாதியான தரவுகள் கிடைத்துள்ளன. நேதாஜியைக் குறித்த 64கோப்புகள் புகைப்பட நகல்களாக  கொல்கத்தா காவல்துறையினர் பொதுமக்கள் பார்வைக்கு வைத்துள்ளனர்.

நேதாஜியைப்பற்றியான இன்னும்பல செய்திகளை அடங்கிய கோப்பிகளும் வெளிவரவேண்டும் என்பதுதான் அனைவருடைய விருப்பமும் ஆகும்.

 The secret files on Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose that will be declassified in Kolkata on Friday may contain enough circumstantial evidence that he was alive till at least 1964, say sources.

An American intelligence report prepared in the early 1960s suggests that Netaji could have returned to India sometime in February 1964 — 19 years after it was claimed that he died in an air crash in Taihoku, Taiwan. Though Russia is not mentioned, Netaji researchers believe American intelligence units had learned about his imminent return from Russia via China. He would have been 67 years old at the time.

"The report was prepared by the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the US intelligence agency formed during World War II that later metamorphosed into Central Intelligence Agency or CIA. Remember, it was in 1949 that Netaji's elder brother Sarat Bose wrote an article: 'Netaji in Red China'. I believe this is conclusive proof that Netaji did not die in 1945," said Netaji researcher Jayanta Chowdhury, who had deposed before the Justice Manoj Mukherjee Commission, whose report had concluded that the Taihoku plane crash hadn't happened.

Among the contents of the 64 files — whose photocopies will be made available to the public at the Kolkata Police archives on Friday — is another US intelligence report on Netaji's escape from house arrest on January 16, 1941.

While history records that Bose, disguised as a Sikh, was driven away by his nephew Sisir, the CIA report — declassified and published 50 years later in the early 1990s — states that five Sikhs had arrived at 38/2 Elgin Road and all five had left in a wagon. One of them was Bose. But there is no mention of a relative. Intelligence Bureau records contain names of visitors to the Netaji residence on that date.

Another indicator that the Allied powers did not believe Netaji died in a plane crash on August 18, 1945, is the sixth volume of the Transfer of Power document published in the UK after the War. It explored several options about how to deal with Subhas Bose - considered a war criminal for his alignment with Axis powers Germany and Japan - including court martial, deportation to a Sicilian island and a suggestion that he wouldn't be made to surrender or tried "if he stays where he is".

Interestingly, Gumnami Baba — the ascetic of Faizabad, who some believe was Netaji — had told select followers, including former INA veterans, about the difficulties he and the country would face from superior powers if his presence became public.

The one file that could have contained definitive evidence on Netaji after 1945 has been destroyed. Only the front page of File No. 12(226)/56-PM regarding 'Investigation into the circumstances leading to the death of Subhas Chandra Bose' remains. A photocopy will be displayed at the police archive on Friday. The rest of the file was destroyed in 1972 when Congress was in power in Bengal and Siddharth Shankar Ray was chief minister.

"I believe some historical missing link may be obtained if successive state governments haven't already tampered with the files. While Congress had every reason to distort facts, so do Communists whose role as secret service agents in India during the Freedom movement is clear in the contents," said Chowdhury, adding that there is also a file on role of chief ministers in the Netaji mystery.  Courtesy : Times of India.

-கே.எஸ்.இராதாகிருஷ்ணன்.
18-09-2015

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