Bengal Assembly adopts unanimous resolution on Netaji report

Kolkata, July 21 (UNI) In a non-official unanimous resolution, the West Bengal Assembly today urged the Centre to immediately implement the findings of the Justice Mukherjee Commission regarding the mysterious disappearance of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose.

The all party resolution, moved by Forward Bloc member Tarapada Chakraborty and supported by members of all other major parties, including Congress chief Whip Manas Bhunia and senior All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) legislators Ashok Deb and Sisir Adhikari, apart from Rabindra Nath Mondal of the CPI(M) and Md Refatullah (RSP), also asked the Union government to disclose the full content of the report and take up detailed discussion on the issue on the floor of the House in the next session.

However, the Congress chief Whip in an effort to provide a little twist to the sensitive issue also demanded setting up a fresh Commission of inquiry by the state government on the same issue and under the chairmanship of Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacherjee.

But the suggestion was summarily rejected by all other members terming it as ''ridiculous''.

Participating in the subsequent discussion on the issue, all members, including State Agriculture and Consumer Affairs Minister Naren De, who is from the Forward Bloc, extensively quoting from Justice Manoj Kumar Mukherjee Commission report impressed upon the members that the great leader did not die in the alleged Taihoku Airport plane crash on August 18,1945 as concluded by the previous two Commission reports.

The ashes in Tokyo's Renkoji temple were not that of Netaji, Mr De, quoting the Mukherjee Commission's finidings, said.

Later, speaking to newsmen all Forward Bloc members, including Mr De and Deputy Speaker Bhakti Pada Ghosh, announced the party's ''March to Parliament'' programme on July 26 to press for the demand.

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