Subhash Chandra Bose Birth Anniversary: 8 interesting facts surrounding Netaji’s mysterious death

New Delhi | Jagran News Desk: Today is the 123rd birth anniversary of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose. Netaji Bose was one of the most admired freedom fighters in India and he inspired thousands to join the freedom movement against the Britishers. Netaji also served as the President of Indian National Congress (INC). However, following his frictions with Mahatma Gandhi and the Congress High Command, he resigned from his post.

Netaji Bose then went to Nazi Germany to seek support for India’s freedom movement. Then with the help of Imperial Japan, Netaji Bose formed the Azad Hind Fauj (AHF) or the Indian National Army (INA). The INA was never a huge threat for the Britishers but it fought valiantly with them in South-East Asia. However, with the loss of the Japanese in the Second World War, the INA too surrendered.

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Netaji died on August 18, 1945 after his overloaded Japanese plane crashed in Japanese-ruled Formosa (now Taiwan). There are many mysterious about his death. Here are some of the mysteries about Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose’s death:

* Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose died on August 18, 1945 in a plane crash in Taiwan.

* However, many of his followers, including his brother Sarat Chandra Bose and his nephew Pradip Bose, refused to believe that he died in the plane crash.

 

 

 

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* Many believed that Netaji Bose took sanyas and resided in UP by the name of Bhagwanji or Gumnami Baba. It is believed that he died in Faizabad in 1985.

* It is said that Gumnami Baba looked very much like Netaji Bose and on four occasions accepted that he Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose but that it was in the best interest of the nation that he stay anonymous.

* From Gumnami Baba’s room, people found a pair of binoculars , a corona typewriter, Netaji’s watch, five teeth and a silver round trimmed spectacles.

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* Netaji Bose’s last photo was shown at Saigon airport on August 17th, 1945. Five days later, the Japanese radio agency announced his death.

* When the story of Netaji’s death reached Viceroy Wavell he said: ‘I do suspect about it.’ Even Mahatma Gandhi said that his intuitions are saying that ‘Bose is still alive’.

* Some of his followers also claimed that Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru conspired with the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic (USSR) to prevent Netaji from returning to India after the independence. They believe that the Congress will never allow the truth about Netaji to be known because Nehru and Netaji were bitter rivals.