Life of a Storyteller
THE MYSTERIOUS NETAJI!
Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, born on January 23, 1897, in Cuttack, Orissa, was an Indian nationalist whose defiant patriotism made him an Indian hero. He was a charismatic influencer of the youth and earned the name ‘Netaji’ by establishing and leading the Indian army during the struggle of Independence.
Any single ideology did not achieve Indian Independence, but it was the effort of patriots who worked together with the same beliefs towards the Indian Independence. In the late 1920s and 1930s, Subhash Chandra Bose had been a leader of the younger, reformer, a wing of the Indian National Congress and rising to become a Congress President in 1938 and 1939. However, there are some facts about Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose which people not aware;
1. In Indian Civil Services Exams (ICS Exams), Netaji came at 4th place. ICS was the father of all exams. But later, he resigned after the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre.
2. Not a single time, Netaji was elected for the president of the Indian National congress two times. Still, He was removed from Indian National Congress leadership positions in 1939 following differences With Mahatma Gandhi and congress high command.
3. Netaji visited Germany and Japan because he needed the help of his Enemy’s Enemy but he never supported Nazi’s Ideology.
4. Later, Netaji created the The Forward Block, which is known as the Azad Hind Fauz.
5. There are many theories which state that Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose may have lived till 1985 and his death remains a Mystery.
In April 1944, Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose had established a bank under the name Azad Hind Bank or The Bank of Independence in Rangoon to manage the funds denoted by the Indian community which comes from across the world.
In the currency note, Netaji showed the map of Independent India included West Pakistan (Now Pakistan) and East Pakistan (Now Bangladesh).
The Azad Hind Bank printed and had 50 Lacs notes, and these notes were printed only one-sided, and the other side was blank. These currencies are tough to find now.
Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, Bhagat Singh, and Chandrashekhar Azad fought against the British on a small and larger scale, and they were the main people behind the freedom of India. There's no doubt that they are the real Freedom Fighters and Heroes.
Well, No one knows the exact details about Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose that what had happened to him until all the files with Central Govt. are declassified, but there are two major mysteries behind his death.
The Plane Crash Mystery
It states that At 2 pm on August 17, 1945, a Mitsubishi Ki-21 heavy bomber took off from Saigon airport. Inside the aircraft were 13 people, including Lt Gen Tsunamasa Shidei of the Imperial Japanese Army, Col Habibur Rahman of the Indian National Army, and one man who sat in a seat a little behind the portside wing – Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose.
After an overnight halt in Vietnam, on August 18, the plane arrived to refuel in Taihoku, Formosa (now Taipei, Taiwan). Moments after the flight took off again, passengers heard a loud ‘bang.’ The ground crew saw the port side engine fall off, and the plane crashed. The pilots and Lt Gen Shidei were killed instantly, and Col Rahman fell unconscious. Bose survived, but his gasoline-soaked clothes ignited, turning him into a human torch.
A few hours later, in a coma in a hospital, Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose passed away. Now the problem with this mystery is Taiwan considered that there was no plane crash in that region on that day. No death certificate was issued, and no one has seen the dead body of Netaji.
The reason behind Netaji’s death was to give him some space to move into Russia because Netaji knew if he remained in Japan controlled territory after Japan’s fall, he would have been prosecuted as a war criminal by the Americans.
The Second Mystery that he jailed in Siberia, and then he hanged him to death. But many years later, BJP’s Subramanian Swamy alleges, “According to the papers that exist with us, Bose had faked his death and escaped to Manchuria in China which was under Russian occupation, hoping Russia would look after him. But Stalin put him in a jail in Siberia. Somewhere around 1953, he hanged or suffocated Bose to death.”
It is still a mystery what had happened to Netaji Subhash Candra Bose, but he still lives in the heart of every Indian, and his quotes always motivate people.
