On September 7, Wednesday, Netaji Subhash Chandra’s daughter, Anita Bose, appealed to Narendra Modi’s government to bring back her father’s remains from Tokyo to India and bring a respectful closure to the matter. It is believed that Netaji died on August 18, 1945 in a plane crash in Taipei.
During a media interaction, Bose clearly stated “In 2015-16, the Indian government under Prime Minister Narendra Modi declassified all until then not yet declassified Government of India files pertaining to Netaji, thereby making available to the public additional facts regarding his death in Taipei on 18 August 1945. The same government, in a reply under the Right to Information Act, thereafter confirmed the evidence and records in the files. Such steps should have removed any doubts about what happened to my father and ended the previous controversy once and for all.”
Netaji Subhash Chandra’s daughter further insisted that a DNA test should be conducted on the remains. Three members of the Bose family, including the 80-year-old daughter who is an economist by profession, Dwarka Nath Bose, a well known physicist, and Ardhendu Bose, the son of Netaji’s younger brother had sent a written appeal to the Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s office twice, asking him to give permission to the DNA test of the remains, kept at Renkoji temple in Japan.
She mentioned “…I appeal to the people of India and to all Indian political parties, to unite in an apolitical and bipartisan manner to bring my father’s mortal remains to India..”. She further added “I should be happy to visit India at the convenience of Prime Minister Narendra Modi as well as leading people of the ruling and the opposition parties to discuss facilitating the transfer of my father’s remains to India.”
When asked about the statue of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose that was unveiled by the Prime Minister of the country, she responded, “”When free India is recognising his valour and heroism by installing his statue at a most central and prestigious location in the heart of the Indian capital, I wish to remind Indians that my father’s mortal remains are still lying in Tokyo and have not been brought home to India for a final disposal for over 77 years,”