Ordinary people and masses look forward for an able
leadership for guidance, assurance and enthusiastically wait for their
visionary approach to lead the nation. Leaders in any part of the World are
held in high reverence and especially those who made phenomenal contribution
for the liberation of the nation from the foreign hands are adored. The recent
episode of the leakage of crucial information regarding the whereabouts of
Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose revealed how the custodians of history and heads of
state failed us appallingly. Setting aside the contributions or sacrifices made
by leaders who hogged in limelight, it has exposed the most cynical side of a
venerable leadership. While it might be too precocious to make frivolous
observations about the overpowering charisma of our hallowed freedom fighters,
the quirkiness of the common man forces him to question the nobility of the
towering personalities.
As more and more details emerge about the declassification of
the files expounding the nexus between Indian leadership and other World
leaders’ curiosity of Indian youth about the nitty-gritty details of the
independence movement and its aftermath is augured. It is matter of utter shame
and disrespect to know that a family who lost their dearest one for the noble
cause of liberating nation was snooped for 20 years. Their personal
communication, movements were under surveillance by the Intelligence Officials
at the behest of the Indian government. It is a duty of every citizen and the
state to accord high statures to the extraordinary men and patriotic sons of
India.
Indian History tried to portray Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose
as a controversial freedom fighter for his ideological concussion with the
Orthodoxy of Mahatma Gandhi. In his pursuit of obtaining independence for the
country he sought help from countries like Russia, Germany and Japan. But he
was neither a communist nor a fascist but a nationalist. His extraordinary
motivation in forming the Indian National Army (INA) with the limited monetary
funding caused tremors in the colonial rule and warranted them to leave India
in 1947. Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar in his interview to the BBC in 1955 revealed
that the British left India for two reasons-The INA raised by Bose aroused
patriotic fervour among the Indian Soldiers who shifted their loyalty and
spurred them to form a battalion to fight out the British. It also attracted
public interest and with sympathy from the Indian military British feared that
it could turn out be another 1857 sepoy mutiny. British Prime Minister Clement
Attlee confided these details in Dr. Ambedkar in a private talk and later
disclosed it in his autobiography too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJs-BJoSzbo
Setting aside the political affiliations and the implications
that the current government can accrue, isn’t it a matter of pride and honour
for the country to know about the whereabouts of a leader who gave up his life for
the freedom of country? Meanwhile the political mudslinging has already
begun with Congress lambasting the NDA government of wilfully damaging the aura of
the nation’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. After almost seven decades
of independence and with latest scientific techniques at our beck and call it
is responsibility of the state to investigate the details of the
leaders associated with freedom movement. It is moral binding on the government
to take a call and restore Bose’s legacy.
All other democratic nations, India loves to emulate have a
well laid out system of declassification of files. It is high time that
government should evolve a system to expunge the lurking doubts about the life
of the freedom leader by having tacit declassification system of files in
place. Noble freedom fighters who threw away British in spite of their
ideological differences always addressed each other with great praise and never
harboured any ill will. The contemporary political parties too instead of getting
overenthusiastic in stirring unfounded controversies must work in tandem to
develop a credible system for declassifying over 150 files locked up in national
depositories. They must also refrain drawing political mileage from the revelations
of the files and leave it to the discretion of public to draw conclusions.
Already some of the crucial files shrouding the mystery of Netaji were
destroyed. Unveiling the mask of secrecy over remaining documents in government’s
possession can be the ultimate tribute the nation can pay to its esteemed son. @ Copyrights reserved.
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