ILL-TREATMENT OF NETAJI BOSE

Apart from dragging its feet in instituting an enquiry into Netaji’s death, manipulating the enquiry report (Blunder#112), being hostile to INA (Blunder#114), and not recognising Netaji for Bharat Ratna (Blunder#111), Nehru’s Government had been so hostile that in 1947 it refused to put up Netaji’s portrait in the Parliament House. In a confidential memo dated 11 February 1949 under the signature of Major General PN Khandoori the government recommended: “The photos of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose be NOT displayed at prominent places, Unit Lines, Canteens, Quarter Guards or Recreation rooms.”

By burying India’s true national freedom hero in the pages of history, Nehru, the Congress, and the “eminent” Marxist-Nehruvian Sarkari historians demonstrated unpardonable ingratitude. The book ‘Judgment: No Aircrash No Death’, co-authored by Lt Manwati Arya of the Rani Jhansi Regiment of the erstwhile INA, details how Nehru had cold- shouldered all attempts at unearthing the truth behind Netaji Subhas’s death; and how the Nehru government left no stone unturned to banish all records of contributions of Netaji’s contribution. In her book, Lt. Manwati Arya says that during her talks in All India Radio (AIR), she was briefed by her programme producers, without fail, about the national policy against any reference to the INA, including the name of Netaji.

This is from the foreword of S Nijalingappa to the book, ‘Inside Story of Sardar Patel—The Diary of Maniben Patel: 1936-50’: “Strangely, however, while the collected works of many other leaders [notably, Nehru and Gandhi] have been published by the government since Independence, the collected or selected works of two foremost leaders, namely Sardar Patel and Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, were never taken up by any official agency…”