Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose’s daughter Anita Bose Pfaff call for his remains to be brought back to India on the 75th anniversary of independence, saying she is convinced the remains at Tokyo’s Renkoji Temple are her father’s.
Anita Bose Pfaff, Age 79, who lives in Germany, said she is ready for an attempt to extract DNA from the remains preserve at the shrine in the Japanese capital, which she describe as ashes, including bones and teeth, in order to carry out tests.
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This said in a statement, referring to the long-standing theory that Netaji died in a plane crash in Formosa in the final weeks of World War 2.
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The fate of Netaji, who form the Indian National Army to fight British rule, remains one of the great mysteries of Indian history.
Anita Bose Pfaff, the only child of Netaji, has for long contend that her father died long ago and that his remains are at Renkoji Temple.
Many of Netaji’s Indian relatives have contend that he survive the crash of a Japanese military aircraft at Formosa, now in Taiwan, on 18th August, 1945, and that the government should continue a search to establish where he travel to from Taiwan.
An Austria-born economist, Anita Bose Pfaff is the daughter of Netaji and his wife Emilie Schenkl.
She was only four months old when her father left Germany for Southeast Asia to take the fight to the British.
In her statement, Anita Bose Pfaff said that 75 years after India was able to throw off the shackles of colonial rule, one of the most prominent heroes of the independence struggle, Subhas Chandra Bose, “has not returned to his motherland as yet”.
His countrymen and countrywomen erect numerous physical and spiritual monuments for him, keeping his memory alive.