Politburo member said Netaji was in USSR

Diplomat's diary | Rai Singh

Netaji is supposed to have died in Taipei on August 18, 1945. This was the conclusion arrived at by the Shah Nawaz Committee and the GD Khosla Commission appointed by Prime Ministers Jawaharlal Lal Nehru and Indira Gandhi. In fact these conclusions by the committee and the commission were made to order, because now it is confirmed beyond the shadow of doubt that what to say of Netaji's death, no air crash took place at Taipei in during the period of the alleged crash. This fact has been officially confirmed by the Taiwanese authorities. Thus the death of Netaji in the aircrash was fake.

The fact is: Netaji had crossed over to the Soviet Union somewhere on the Soviet-Manchurian border, where he was taken into custody by the Soviet Frontier Guards. This was stated by none other than Babajan Gouffrav, a member of the Soviet Union's Politburo - the highest policy making authority in the Soviet Union. Gouffrav was also the Director of the Institute of the Oriental Studies in Moscow, and a leading member of Uzbek politics. Babajan Gouffrav had visited India several times and was conversant with the political scene in India. He was a close friend of Professor Ram Rahul of Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi, who visited Soviet Union Several times, and who I also knew for years.

According to Babajan Gouffrav, India's Ambassador in Moscow Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan was allowed to see Netaji some where in the Soviet Union on the condition that the Ambassador would not talk and mutely converse in any manner with Netaji. After this strange meeting, Ambassador Radhakrishnan informed Prime Minister Nehru about Netaji's presence in the Soviet Union. This fact came to be known and speculations were rife in New Delhi about the ways and means of securing the release of Netaji from the Soviet custody, but nothing was done at the official level to secure Netaji\\'s release. Thus ended one dark chapter in the history of free India.

Rai Singh is a former Director of the erstwhile Information Service of India.

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