Netaji Subhas Bose's disappearance - Dr. Satyanarayana Sinha's testimony Part 1

There is now a renewed attempt to get the facts on Netaji straight. The incidents were deliberately obfuscated and put to burial by the erstwhile Governments on account of vested political reasons. The first Government of India started this deliberate obfuscation because of political and selfish personal interests of the then Prime Minister. The successive governments only tried to perpetuate it as otherwise many names of the ruling party Congress would have been dis-reputed because of their involvement and malafide intentions in the cover up. It was assumed that the public of India had a very short memory. The best way to give a quite burial to Netaji is to let the issue settle down and through clever means of propaganda, concealment and with the help of the brute force of the state administrations any opposition or attempt to find the truth could be overcome. The two puppet commissions - Shah Nawaz in 1956 and Khosla in 1970 were set up for the intention of giving an official stamp of approval on the plane crash theory. But there were few people who were conscientious, who simply fought on relentlessly to bring the anomalies to light. One of them was Dr. Satyanarayana Sinha, an MP of Congress and a diplomat of international stature who visited Russia and Formossa to investigate about Netaji and came back with startling findings. He apparently shared them with Nehru who did not pay any attention to what he had said.

It is to be noted that Netaji's Russia connection was conjectured for a long time, even after his so called concoted death theory was floated which was not believed by his close aides. Netaji had faked his death in a plane crash in 1942 to dupe British MI5. There was no reason he could not do that again. It is now well known that Britain and America did not believe in the plane crash theory of 1945, nor did Mahatma Gandhi, nor did probably Nehru himself. There are other accounts, if, to be believed are quite damning for Congress. A certain S.M Goswami had deposed before Khosla commission that S Radhakrishnan had told him twice that he met Netaji in Soviet Russia when he was visiting Russia. Radhakrishnan had revealed that Netaji had requested him for a return to India and Radhakrishnan had raised this with Nehru he had dismissed it. There are many other evidences, that could be garnered from KGB's secret archives by independent researchers like Dr. Purabi Roy which had led to the speculation that Netaji could have been in Russia. But where was he? In this respect Dr. Sinha gives a startling account. In his book Netaji Rahasya (Mystery of Netaji) he provided some evidence along with the claim that he had enough documentary evidences that indeed there was no plane crash on 18 Aug 1945. It was a Japanese conspiracy and it may also have been true that Japenese had used Netaji to negotiate with Russia on their behalf. It was also needed for Netaji who wanted an ally to carry on his battles to free India after the abject surrender of Japanese. He had nowhere to hide or go other than Russia. The situation post world war 2 was complicated. The INA was almost disbanded and its soldiers captured by the advancing allied forces, Burma under Aung San had sided with the British against Japan, Singapore had fallen, Malaya, Bangkok and a few other places remained but would not be there for long. So there were few places to go. A surrender was out of question, he had to still carry out the fight against British imperialism. So the last resort was an advancing Russia which had already attacked Japan. By then Japan had surrendered to the allied forces and for the Japanese a peace with Russia was absolutely essential. Only one person with impeccable credentials could broker that peace - Netaji Subhas Bose, the Indian Samurai.