Markandey Katju calls Subhas Chandra Bose a ‘Japanese agent’, Tagore a

A letter written by Ohou Hrian Kuan, from the Publication Division of the I&B Ministry at the Old Secretariat in New Delhi, was intercepted by the Intelligence Bureau at the Elgin Road post office before it reached Amiya.

With the Congress government denying to declassify files on the controversial issue on the freedom fighter Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose’s death and the Modi government dragging its feet on the same, the issue gets murkier as the day goes by.

According to the files accessed by CNN-IBN, British and American intelligence agencies did not believe that Bose died in a plane crash in 1945.

There are several conspiracy theories around Bose’s death. “I believe some historical missing link may be obtained if successive state governments haven’t already tampered with the files”.

It was on September 11 that chief minister Mamata Banerjee announced that the files would be put on at public domain. READ ALSO: Can’t declassify Subhash Chandra Bose files – PMO 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 United Kingdom after the War.

These agencies held that Bose was undergoing training in Russian Federation to emerge as another former Yugoslavia president Josip Broz Tito, Bulgarian communist leader Georgi Mikhaylovich Dimitrov or the founding father of People’s Republic of China Mao Tse-tung also known as Mao Zedong, when the Marxist hour struck India.

Sugata Bose, TMC MP from Jadavpur and the great-nephew of Netaji, however differed from the conclusions being drawn from these documents. An assistant commissioner of Kolkata Police who is in charge of Calcutta Police Museum where the files would be available for researchers, will be in charge of a police contingent which will be on guard. “But we shouldn’t lose sight of Netaji and his life”, he said. “I don’t buy the central government’s argument that disclosing these files might adversely affect foreign relations”.