Netaji Subhas Bose's disappearance - Dr. Satyanarayana Sinha's testimony Part 2

Coming back to Dr. Satyanarayana Sinha. His writing was published in Hinsdustan Standard and in Anandabazar. According to his claim, he went personally in Formossa (Taiwan) and enquired there about an aircraft accident on 18 Aug in Taipei. The response that he got was that there was no airplane accident in that port on that day. Instead an accident happened about a year back in October 1944. But that did not kill Netaji as it is very evident that he lived till August 1945. That there was no aircraft accident was a fact acknowledged by Mukherjee Commission that was set up in early 2000. Although Mukherjee Commission report was rejected by the UPA government which showed open hostility towards it and although the findings of the commission remained inconclusive on account of an alleged falsification of handwriting and DNA reports by two Government experts and two Government labs, justice Mukherjee had clearly articulated that Netaji did not die in the aircrash. The theory was false.

It is interesting that an American agent named Alfred Wagg had provided the same information to British and American intelligence agencies. He said that the plane crash was stage managed by Japanese Government and Bose was alive in Manchuria.

Dr. Sinha's investigations in the 1960s, through his dialogues with locals, many of whom were direct participants in the theater of the war in Asia Pacific, either for or against Japan and later for or against Communist China, reveal that 1) Japanese generals stage managed Netaji's escape to Dairen or Dalian in Manchuria to escape the incoming allied forces and also to negotiate with Russia to support the the ongoing efforts of liberation of India 2) That the Japanese may had a vested interest in doing so, to use Netaji's influence to bring an end to the open hostilities between Russia and Japan 3) They set up an elaborate arrangement to provide a backdrop to the accident by tutoring witnesses and Habibur Rahman who was with Netaji had been sworn to secrecy and to stick to the above version for the sake of his leader. Col. Habibur did so till his last breath. They had made the photograph of 1944 accident as an evidence of the accident. There is no photograph of Netaji in dying state. It is to be noted that Sarat Chandra Bose, the brother of Netaji Subhas Bose did not believe that he died in plance crash. In fact when Habibur had returned him his wrist watch Sarat had thundered how come the watch was not burned at all when he suffered from third degree burn. Habibur was silent. Another time Habibur had no answer, when Mahatma Gandhi, who through his keen insights, knew that Subhas did not die in the plane crash, and he accused Habibur of lying at the insistence of his leader.

Coming back to Dr. Sinha's account - It seems that Netaji had planned to go to Dairen, which had come under Soviet occupation. Netaji was eternally optimistic. He somehow thought that he would convince Stalin to help him in his plan, since every other door for him was closed. His situation was like that of Abhimanyu in Mahabharata. He had entered the Chakra Vyuha for teh sake of his country, but did not know how to come out of it and he was desperate. British and American intelligence agencies were nearing him. Japan was in no position to help. Other Axis powers had collapsed. China was in turmoil, moreover it would not transact with Subhas who had allied with their arch enemies. Every East Asian Nation was up in arms either against Japan or against the Imperial powers. In this situation it would be extremely difficult to ascertain who would be friend and who would be enemy. If Netaji get caught by allies they would not risk an open trial for him, he would be killed in secrecy. That was also Churchill's plan and it was corroborated by none other than the willy Mountbatten, the mastermind of partition, who with the active connivance of Nehru and a power hungry cotery of Congress inflicted the greatest disaster on the people of Bengal and Punjab. It was Mountbatten who forbade Nehru to take back INA soldiers in Indian army, or to put a wreathe on the site of INA memorial in Singapore. It was he who took advantage of Nehru's weakness for fairer sex through his wife Edwina and was privy to many important decisions. It is extremely critical to learn Nehru's stand to understand Netaji's helplessness, that how our greatest Nationalist Leader was left in the lurch by our establishment who continued with the elitist British rule by brown sahibs.