Stalin killed Netaji, Subramanian Swamy says

[Hindustani78]

Tito kept Yugoslavia united but it imploded into 6 states after his death and while USSR imploded into 15 states in 1991. Nobody can make the prediction if there would have been a single state in South Asia.

Fall of Eastern Germany was the turning point and even before that it was collapse of USSR economically because of the high corruption within. Maintaining huge army was not easy task and even there was technology gap between Warsaw pact countries and NATO countries. NATO countries adopted multicultarism which helped in not only building but even lifted the economies of early EU countries.

Modi govt takes UPA line; won't disclose Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose files | Zee News
Last Updated: Friday, February 6, 2015 - 19:58

New Delhi: Taking the line adopted by the previous Congress-led UPA government, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Office has refused to disclose records related to Subhash Chandra Bose's death as it rejected the argument that there was a larger public interest involved in making them public.


The Right to Information Act allows for a public authority to disclose records which are otherwise exempt from disclosure if public interest outweighs the harm protected.

Activist Subhash Agrawal had sought from the Prime Minister's Office the records related to the freedom fighter and leader of the Indian National Army to clarify the mystery surrounding his alleged death in a plane crash 70 years back.

Agrawal had also asked for information of the steps taken by the top office to make such records public and the action taken on requests seeking such documents.

But toeing the line of the UPA government, the PMO had cited an exemption clause in the RTI Act which allows withholdnig of information that could prejudicially affect relations with a foreign country. The PMO, however, did not even give the names of the countries with which the relations may get affected once the said information is made public.

When the first appeal was filed before a higher officer in the top office, the Appellate Authority, Krishan Kumar, had rejected the argument that public interest would be served through the disclosure of the documents related to Bose's death.

Home Minister Rajnath Singh, while campaigning for polls, had claimed that there was a larger public interest involved in the disclosure of the documents, but the PMO under Modi does not seem to be in agreement.

"It is observed that the disclosure of the records was withheld under Section 8(1)(a) of RTI Act on the grounds that it would prejudicially affect relations with foreign countries.

"The determination as to whether a particular body of records has such ramifications has been left to the judgement of the competent authority authorised to determine the same," Kumar had said.

Citing a favourable order from the CIC allowing it to withhold information related to Bose, the PMO said that its stand to continue to withhold the information "is in order in so far as it is consistent with the extant CIC rulings in the matter".

"In line with the above status of the matter, information as per point number 4 (information on action taken for making public files related to Subhash Chandra Bose) may not be a valid proposition," Kumar said.

"Based on the reasons given above, no further action is called for on your appeal and the same is accordingly disposed of," he said.

The PMO had recently accepted that there were 41 files related to Bose, of which two have been declassified, but refused to disclose them taking a position similar to that of the UPA government.

When Modi was Gujarat Chief Minister, family members of Bose had sought his help for the declassification of all secret files concerning the iconic leader.

"Netaji belonged to the entire nation, so we extend our appeal to you for your kind support in demanding from the Prime Minister that the Central Government release in public domain all records to help unravel the mystery about his fate and bring a closure to the issue," read the letter to Modi.

Demanding declassification of the secret files concerning Netaji's death, his grand-nephew and family spokesperson, Chandra Bose, had met Modi during his visit to Kolkata in 2013.

PTI

 

[Hindustani78]

http://zeenews.india.com/india/neta...-1945-plane-crash-in-taiwan-govt-2010755.html

New Delhi: In a reply to a Right To Information (RTI) query, the government has said that Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose died in a plane crash on August, 18 1945, a report said on Wednesday.

The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) admitted of Netaji dying in the plane crash while replying to a RTI query filed by Sayak Sen.

The Centre in its reply said, "After considering the reports of Shahnawaz Committee, Justice GD Khosla Commission and Justice Mukherjee Commission of Enquiry, the Government has come to the conclusion that Netaji has died in plane crash in 1945.''


The report was published by The Indian Express.

The great freedom fighter's family expressed displeasure over Centre's claim.

Netaji's grand nephew Chandra Kumar Bose, who is also Bengal BJP vice president, called the reply “highly objectionable” and said he would raise the matter with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

In his RTI application Sen also enquired about Gumnami Baba or Bhagwanji. To thsi teh MHA replied: "Some information about Gumnami Baba and Bhagwanji is available in the Mukherjee Commission report on pg-114-122. This report is available at mha.nic.in. Mukherjee Commission had come to the conclusion that Gumnami Baba/Bhagwanji was not Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose".

In October 2015, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had met the family members of Netaji and announced that the government would declassify the files relating to the leader whose disappearance 70 years ago remains a mystery.

Last year, on Netaji's 119th birth anniversary on January 23, as many as 100 secret files were made public by PM Modi.

While two commissions of inquiry had concluded that Netaji had died in a plane crash in Taipei on August 18, 1945, a third probe panel, headed by Justice M K Mukherjee, had contested it and suggested that Bose was alive.