Forward Bloc for'fresh probe' into Netaji's disappearance

New Delhi, May 18 (UNI) The Forward Bloc, one of the four Left parties supporting the UPA Government at the Centre, today demanded a ''fresh probe'' and a thorough discussion in Parliament on the findings of the Justice Mukherjee Commission Report, which has inferred that the great freedom fighter had not died in a plane crash in 1945.

''There must be a further inquiry to dig out the truth behind the disappearance of Netaji as the Government has rejected the findings without any substantial explanation,'' Forward Bloc National Secretary G Devrajan told UNI.

The Mukherjee Commission on the disappearance and alleged death of Netaji has inferred that he did not die in a plane crash in 1945.

But while tabling the the Action Taken Report alongwith the three- volumes Commission Report, Minister of State for Home S Reghupathy had told the Lok Sabha yesterday that Government did not agree with the findings that Netaji did not die in a plane crash and the ashes in the Renkoji Temple were not those of Netaji.

The Left leader said, ''While we welcome the Commission's findings, but we condemn the Government's attitude. It has rejected the findings without any substantial explanation. The Forward Bloc and milions of followers have been been asserting since 1945 that no planecrash took place in the so called airport in Taiwan.'' Mr Devrajan also argued that ''so when there was no plane crash the second question does not arise.'' Forward Bloc General Secretary Debvarat Biswas, while speaking on the issue in the Rajya Sabha yesterday, also raised the party's demand for a fresh enquiry and debate on the Commission's report.

But two other supporting Left parties- the CPI(M) and the CPI- had their own viewpoints. While CPI National Secretary Shamim Faizi said, ''the Government has taken a step that the report deserves,'' CPI(M) senior leader and Polit bureau member M K Pandhe advocated that ''some finality has to be there.'' Mr Devrajan alleged that the Congress and the Manmohan Singh Government was still hatching a conspiracy with the avowed aim of not letting the truth come out on what had happened after 1945.

''We demand that while the Report be discussed in both Houses of Parliament, there must be a further enquiry to dig out truth.'' Mr Pandhe, referring to the findings of various Committees and Commissions- the Shahnawaz Khan, the Netaji's comrade in arms, Khosla commission and the Japanese Government's own probe, said there was ''no alternative evidence.'' The Commission was set up by the previous NDA Government in 1999 to inquire into the circumstances concerning the departure of Netaji Bose from Bangkok in August 1945, his reported death in an aircrash and subsequent connected developments.

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