Credible inputs in respect of Netaji mystery |
Recently a controversy arose when Mr. Mahender Kumar, DS (Security), Ministry of Home Affairs, in a reply dated 30.05.2017, to a RTI request with registration number MHOME/R/2017/50894 and related to Netaji mystery, had stated, inter alia, that “the Government has come to the conclusion that Netaji had died in the plane crash on 18.08.1945”.
RTI reply reg Netaji's death given by CPIO was based on May 2006 Cabinet decision. Any other credible inputs would be examined.@HMOIndia— Spokesperson, Ministry of Home Affairs (@PIBHomeAffairs) June 2, 2017
After a public furore and sharp reactions by the West Bengal Chief Minister Ms. Mamata Banerjee and various political parties, Mr. Kuldeep Dhatwalia, Director General (Media & Communication - MHA), Press Information Bureau, Government of India, in a Twitter post dated 02.06.2017, had clarified that the said RTI reply regarding Netaji’s death given by the CPIO was based on the May 2006 Cabinet decision and that any other credible inputs would be examined.
Major General Aleksandr Kolesnikov (Retd.) |
Major General Aleksandr Kolesnikov (Retd.) has made unequivocal statements in the said investigative documentary film. He has dismissed the view that Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose died in the plane crash and supported the view that it was a disappearance. He has admitted that the Russian archives containing materials concerning state secrets are closed to researchers. He has stated that he thinks that there was some secret pact about Netaji between USSR and Great Britain. He has further stated that he thinks that Netaji was useful during Stalin’s time but after Stalin’s death Netaji was not much of an asset for the Soviet Union. Finally he has suggested that Government of India should officially request the Russian President for information as that is the only way to get all the answers.
It is pertinent here to give a brief introduction of Major General Aleksandr Kolesnikov (Retd.) along with his contact information. He is the Representative of Russian Institute for Strategic Studies in Turkey. He is a Doctor of Historical Sciences and a Professor associated with Military Institute of Foreign Languages and Institute of Oriental Studies in Russia. He is presently around sixty-six years of age. He had been in military service of USSR for around seventeen years and his last held position was that of Assistant Chief of Staff of the Joint Armed Forces of the Warsaw Pact countries. Thereafter for around four years he worked as an international journalist in Germany and Poland and subsequently for around eight years in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkey and Israel). He has the diplomatic rank of 1st class Minister Counsellor. He speaks English, French, Polish, Turkish and Turkmen languages. He has authored over one hundred published monographs, books and scientific articles. His contact details are as follows –
Major General Aleksandr Kolesnikov (Retd.)
Saint-Petersburg Regional Information-Analytical Center
194156, St. Petersburg, Bolshoy Sampsonievsky Avenue, 87, Russia
Phone: +90-533-695-78-65
Dr. (Ms.) Purabi Roy |
Dr. (Ms.) Purabi Roy, a retired Professor of International Relations at Jadavpur University, a former Visiting Professor at Moscow State University and St. Petersburg University, a profound scholar of Russian language and literature, an independent Netaji researcher and at present a Member of Council in Indian Council of Historical Research, has been a strong proponent of Netaji’s presence in the erstwhile Soviet Union after 18 August 1945. She claims that during her research work related visit to Moscow from August-October 1996, she came to know from her good friend Major General Aleksandr Kolesnikov (Retd.) about the existence of files on Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose in the “Archive of the Chief Intelligence Directorate of the Russian General Staff” also known as “GRU” (the English transliteration of the Russian acronym, which stands for “Glavnoe Razvedyvatel’noe Upravlenie”) Archive in Podolsk where she had no access. At her request, Major General Aleksandr Kolesnikov (Retd.) procured from the said “GRU” Archive, information about a file that referred to a meeting between Joseph Stalin, Vyacheslav Molotov, Andrey Vyshinsky and Yakov Malik discussing "Where to keep Chandra Bose?" in October 1946. She claims to have arranged a meeting where Major General Aleksandr Kolesnikov (Retd.) discussed the above-mentioned finding with Mr. Chitta Basu, the then General Secretary of All India Forward Bloc and Mr. Joyanto Roy, also a member of All India Forward Bloc, both of whom were in Moscow in October 1996, as part of the Parliamentary Delegation to Russian Federation led by Mr. Purno Agitok Sangma, the then Speaker of Lok Sabha. She claims that a note with details of the above-mentioned finding, handwritten by Major General Aleksandr Kolesnikov (Retd.), was given to Mr. Chitta Basu in the said meeting for further necessary action. She regrets that Mr. Chitta Basu on return from Russia ignored the above-mentioned finding and that the said handwritten note became untraceable after his death in the following year.
"Destiny and Death of Chandra Bose" |
Mr. Joyanto Roy |
The statements made by Major General Aleksandr Kolesnikov (Retd.) in the investigative documentary film titled “Subhash Chandra Bose: The Mystery” and his article titled “Destiny and Death of Chandra Bose” clearly hint at Netaji’s presence in Soviet Union after 18 August 1945. Taking the profile of Major General Aleksandr Kolesnikov (Retd.) into account, it does not seem that he is making conjectures, rather his views are most likely to be based on secret information drawn upon Russian archives, where without any exception only a strictly defined category of officials are allowed to work with the classified documents. Furthermore if the finding about the Soviet cabinet members discussing Netaji’s future in a meeting in October 1946, which Dr. (Ms.) Purabi Roy has consistently over the years attributed to Major General Aleksandr Kolesnikov (Retd.), is true, then it is an irrefutable proof negating the story of death of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose in the alleged plane crash at Taihoku (now Taipei) in Formosa (now Taiwan) on 18 August 1945.
Therefore, it is necessary to get the admissible evidence of Major General Aleksandr Kolesnikov (Retd.) as early as possible and in a manner similar to the one in which it would have been done, had he deposed before the Justice Mukherjee Commission of Inquiry. If such evidence is successfully obtained, it will be a major step forward for all future investigations into Netaji’s disappearance mystery.
The most valuable input given by Major General Aleksandr Kolesnikov (Retd.) is in the form of the advice that to unravel Netaji’s disappearance mystery the Russian Government should be approached at the highest level.
In view of the above facts and circumstances, I have written a letter dated 02.08.2017 to the Hon'ble Prime Minister of India Mr. Narendra Modi, requesting him to intervene in the matter and especially to personally engage with the President of Russia and persuade him to declassify all files on Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose available with the Russian Government to pave the way for the resolution of the long-standing mystery.
The original letter along with supporting documents, sent through post, has been delivered to the PMO on 07.08.2017. Copies of the letter along with attachments, forwarded to the Hon’ble Chief Minister of West Bengal Ms. Mamata Banerjee, Hon’ble Mr. Justice (Retd.) Manoj Kumar Mukherjee, Dr. (Ms.) Purabi Roy, Mr. Joyanto Roy and Ms. Chitra Ghosh (Bose family), have also been delivered through post.
PMOPG/E/2017/0425718 |
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In connection with the above letter, Mr. Joyanto Roy of All India Forward Bloc, has written a Facebook post dated 04.08.2017 addressed to Prime Minister Mr. Narendra Modi. Despite his political differences, Mr. Joyanto Roy has praised the Prime Minister for his mental strength with the hope that he would be able to achieve huge mass support for the cause of the country's interest. He has urged the Prime Minister to take up this issue with Moscow immediately and accept the proposal to erect a INA Memorial in front of Lalquella (Red Fort).
Seminar of Netaji Bhavna Mancha on 18.08.2017 |
Facebook campaign on 18.08.2017 |
On 14.10.2015, while announcing the process of declassification of files relating to Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, the Prime Minister had said "There is no need to strangle history. Nations that forget their history lack the power to create it." Let us be optimistic that the Hon'ble Prime Minister of India Mr. Narendra Modi will pay heed to the public demand and do everything possible within his powers to end Netaji mystery.
Let us make concerted efforts and bring a closure to this case.
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