‘Deshprem Divas’ Rally
was organized by “The Open Platform For Netaji” on Netaji’s 117th
birth anniversary In collaboration with “Mission Netaji”, “Indian Socialist
Democratic Forum”, “Netaji Subhash Struggle Front” & “Right to Recall” on
23rd Jan’14 at Kolkata.
The protesters marched for around six km from Red Road to the
Netaji Bhawan on Elgin Road, the family’s ancestral house which has a museum
and also acts as a research center on the life of the nationalist leader. Mr.
Sugata and his mother Krishna Bose run the bureau. Chandra Bose, other family members and
hundreds of people under these forum marched on 23rd Jan’14
demanding complete declassification of all secret Netaji files by PMO &
other departments of Government of India along with secret files lies with West
Bengal, Odisha, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra etc state governments.
Netaji’s
grand-nephew Chandra Kumar Bose and 30 to 35 family members and a group of
youngsters & peoples from all ages cutting their political lines united
under the forum of ‘Open Platform for Netaji’ were protesting and shouting
slogans against Sugata Bose who runs the research body when police drove them
away.
“He [Mr. Sugata] has told us that
declassification of files relating to the mysterious disappearance of Netaji in
1945 is a non-issue, but the PMO has admitted that they have secret files with
them. We were protesting peacefully to demand a public statement from him on
this issue when the police forced us to exit,” Mr. Chandra Kumar Bose told
during rally.
“They have converted the
Netaji Bhawan into a business venture and a political forum. So we demand that
they must be thrown out,” said some of Netaji’s family members. They demanded
that the National Archives should take over the heritage property.
Netaji's grand-nephew
Chandra Bose also said, "The whole country is celebrating the birthday of
our national hero Netaji but we do not know when and how he died. The government
has the answers to all these questions in the form of secret files relating to
his death. Now they must release it".
Researcher Anuj Dhar
who has written three books on the Netaji’s disappearance, said, “We have
information that the West Bengal government also has more than 60 files
relating to Netaji.“Mamata Banerjee must first release these files and then
persuade the Centre to release the files they have,” he said.
Another Bose Family member Mr. Abhijit Roy presented
authentic facts & data to establish the fact that Netaji didn’t died at
plane crash and this plane crash practically didn’t happened at all. He
strongly demanded that all secret files must be declassified immediately.
Another speaker Mr. Ashoke Bhattacharya very sentimentally
highlighted Netaji’s contributions and works which still motivate large number
of Indian peoples.
I (Saroop
Chattopadhyay) also strongly raised these demands during my lecture and also
said that this “Netaji Research Bureau” can’t be allowed run to please the betrayer
family of India i.e. ‘Nehru-Gandhi family’. I also told that peoples of India
must know the fact that British Government left India due to Netaji and not due
to ‘Nehru-Gandhi family’ and so in place of them ‘Bose family’ should be known
as ‘first family of India’.
Other activists also
strongly demanded that Netaji’s Birthday should be announced as “Deshprem
Divas” by Government immediately along with ‘declassification’ demand. They
also played an audio tape which proved the fact that Prof. Sugata Bose clearly
told that declassification of Netaji files is a ‘non-issue’.
They demanded immediate condemnation
of this statement and was sitting on a ‘Dharna’ till death & shouting
slogans against Prof. Sugata Bose when police drove them away and stop removed
them from in-front of the gate of Netaji Bhawan & forcefully stopped mike.
Actually police wanted to evacuate them immediately, still they continued their
‘Dharna’ up to 9pm then to avoid confutation with administration they leave the
place peacefully after giving their deputation.
