Proclamation of the Provisional Government of Azad Hind

On October 21, 1943, Subhas Chandra Bose announced the formation of the Provisional Government of Azad Hind. Mission Netaji is thankful to The Netaji Centre, Kuala Lumpur for the text of the proclamation.

After their first defeat at the hands of the British in 1757 in Bengal, the Indian people fought an uninterrupted series of hard and bitter battles over a stretch of one hundred years. The history of this period teems with examples of unparalleled heroism and self-sacrifice. And, in the pages of that history, the names of Sirajuddaula and Mohanlal of Bengal, Haider Ali, Tippu Sultan and Velu Tampi of South India, Appa Sahib Bhonsle and Peshwa Baji Rao of Maharashtra, the Begums of Oudh, Sardar Shyam Singh Atariwala of Punjab and last, but not the least, Rani Laxmibai of Jhansi, Tantia Tope, Maharaja Kunwar Singh of Dumraon and Nana Sahib – among others – the names of all these warriors are for ever engraved in letters of gold.

Unfortunately for us, our forefathers did not at first realize that the British constituted a grave threat to the whole of India, and they did not therefore put up a united front against the enemy. Ultimately, when the Indian people were roused to the reality of the situation, they made a concerted move and under the flag of Bahadur Shah in 1857, they fought there last war as free men. In spite of a series of brilliant victories in the early stages of this war, ill-luck and faulty leadership gradually brought about their final collapse and subjugation. Nevertheless, such heroes as the Rani of Jhansi, Tantia Tope, Kunwar Singh and Nana Sahib live like eternal stars in the nation\\’s memory to inspire us to greater deeds of sacrifice and valour.

Forcibly disarmed by the British after 1857 and subjected to terror and brutality, the Indian people lay prostrate for a while-but with the rebirth of the Indian National Congress in 1885, there came a new awakening. From 1885, until the end of the last World War, the Indian people in their endeavor to recover their lost liberty, tried all possible methods- namely agitation and propaganda, boycott of British goods, terrorism and sabotage – and finally armed revolution. But all these efforts failed for a time. Ultimately in 1920, when the Indian people haunted by a sense of failure, were groping for a new method, Mahatma Gandhi came forward with the new weapon of non-co-operation and civil disobedience.

For two decades thereafter, the Indian people went through a phase of intense patriotic activity. The message of freedom was carried to every Indian home. Through personal example, people were taught to suffer, to sacrifice and to die in the cause of freedom. From the centre of the remotest villages, the people were knit together into one political organization.

Thus the Indian people not only recovered their political consciousness but became a political entity once again. They could now speak with one voice and strive with one will for one common goal. From 1937 to 1939, through the work of the Congress Ministers in eight provinces, they gave proof of the readiness and their capacity to administer their own affairs.

Thus, on the eve of the present World War, the stage was set for the final struggle for India\\’s liberation. During the course of this war, Germany with the help of her allies has dealt shattering blows to our enemy in Europe – while Nippon, with the help of her allies, has inflicted a knockout blow to our enemy in East Asia. Favored by a most happy combination of circumstances, the Indian people today have a wonderful opportunity for achieving their national emancipation.

For the first time in recent history, Indians abroad have also been politically roused and united in one organization. They are not only thinking and feeling in tune with their countrymen at home, but are also marching in step with them along the path to freedom. In East Asia, in particular, over two million Indians are now organized as one solid phalanx, inspired by the slogan of \\’Total Mobilisation\\’. And in front of them stand the salaried ranks of India\\’s Army of Liberation, with the slogan \\’Onward to Delhi\\’, on their lips.

Having goaded Indians to desperation by its hypocrisy and having driven them to starvation and death by plunder and loot, British rule in India has forfeited the goodwill of the Indian people altogether and is now living a precarious existence. It needs but a flame to destroy the last vestige of that happy rule. To light that flame is the task of India\\’s Army of Liberation. Assured of enthusiastic support of the civil population at home and also of large sections of Britain\\’s Indian Army, and backed by gallant and invincible allies abroad – but relying in the first instance on its own strength, India\\’s Army of Liberation is confident of fulfilling its historic role.

Now that the dawn of freedom is at hand, it is the duty of the Indian people to set up a provisional Government of their own and launch the last struggle under the banner of the Government. But with all the Indian Leaders in prison and the people at home totally disarmed, it is not possible to set up a Provisional Government. It is therefore the duty of the Indian Independence League in East Asia, supported by all patriotic Indians at home and abroad, to undertake this task – the task of setting up a Provisional Government of Azad Hind (Free India) and of conducting the last fight for freedom, with the help of the Army of Liberation, (that is, the Azad Hind Fauj or the Indian National Army) organized by the League. Having been constituted as the Provisional Government of Azad Hind by the Indian Independence League in East Asia, we enter upon our duties with full sense of responsibility that has devolved on us. We pray that the province may bless our work and struggle for the emancipation of our Motherland. And we hereby pledge our lives for our comrades in arms to the cause of her freedom, of her welfare and her exaltation among the nations of the world.

It will be the task of the Provisional Government to launch and to conduct the struggle that will bring about the expulsion of the British and their allies from the soil of India. It will then be the task of the Provisional Government to bring about the establishment of a permanent National Government of Azad Hind constituted in accordance with the will of the Indian people and enjoying their confidence. After the British and their allies are overthrown and until a permanent National Government of Azad Hind is set up on Indian soil, the Provisional Government will administer the affairs of the country in trust for the Indian people.

The provisional Government is entitled to, and hereby claims, the allegiance of every Indian. It guarantees religious liberty, as well as equal rights and equal opportunities to all its citizens. It declares its firm resolves to pursue the happiness and prosperity of the whole nation and of its parts, cherishing all the children of the nation equally and transcending all the differences cunningly fostered by an alien government in the past.

In the name of God, in the name of bygone generations who have welded the Indian people into one nation, and in the dead heroes who have bequeathed to us a tradition of heroism and self-sacrifice-we call upon the Indian people to rally round our banner and strike for India\\’s freedom. We call upon them to launch the final struggle (against the British and all their allies in India and prosecute that struggle) with valour and perseverance in full faith in final victory – until the enemy is expelled from Indian soil and the Indian people are once again a free nation

Signed on behalf on the Provisional Government of Azad Hind

Subhas Chandra Bose
Head of State, Prime Minister and Minister of War and Foreign Affairs

Captain (Dr) Lakshmi
Women\\’s Organization

SA Ayer
Publicity and Propaganda

Lt -Col AC Chatterji
Finance

Lt-Col Aziz Ahmad, Lt-Col NS Bhagat, Lt-Col JK Bhonsle, Lt-Col Gulzara Singh, Lt-Col MZ Kiani, Lt-Col AD Loganadhan, Lt-Col Ehsan Qadir, Lt-Col Shah Nawaz
Representatives of the Armed Forces

AM Sahay
Secretary (with Ministerial Rank)

Rash Behari Bose
Supreme Advisor

Karim Ghani, Debnath Das, DM Khan, A Yellapa, J Thivy, Sardar Ishar Singh
Adviser

AN Sarkar
Legal Adviser

D.N.A. controversy – Netaji Mystery ( Part-1)

Proposition of D.N.A. test on the human ashes, kept in Renkoji temple, Tokyo, allegedly of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, is a carefully made criminal design, to cover up the truth behind Netaji mystery.

Transfer of wealth from INA (Indian National Army) fund / Bank to a secret account in Overseas Bank in the name of Jawaharlal Nehru is possibly the first source of black money in the hands of Nehru – Gandhi dynasty. This dynasty, in collaborations with its foreign masters for common interest, is trying to cover up the facts in Netaji mystery. Under pressure of circumstances, Nehru constituted Sah Nawaz Khan Committee to investigate the mystery (1956), Nehru from behind the curtain, could successfully manipulate the progress of the activity of the committee. It could not / did not go to Taihoku, Taiwan, the place of alleged accident. It was not constituted under the commission of inquiry act 1952. Committee submitted a doctored report. Suresh Chandra Bose submitted a dissentient report, which was not accepted by the G.O.I. In 1956, Taiwan Government submitted one report, on this subject, telling that there is no record of any Plane accident on alleged day of 18 August, 1945 in Taihoku airport (alleged airport) and there is no definite proof of Netaji’s actual death at that time. Copies of this report were submitted to government of UK and government of India in 1956. Government of UK declassified this file in UK in 1971 and government of India never disclosed the receipt of such report from Taiwan government. In December 1969 a group of MPs, after their tour to Taiwan, & South East Asia submitted one resolution to PMO, telling that government of Taiwan has told them that there was no plane crash on 18 August, 1945 in Taihoku airport. Series of events around that the time put Mrs Indira Gandhi to situation compulsions, where she constituted Justice Khosla Commission to investigate the mystery. But again Justice Khosla was being guided from behind. On the surface, he went to Taiwan, but did not go to the alleged place of accident, place of cremation or concerned records office or any government office for necessary documents. Again he submitted one manufactured report to satisfy the interest of Nehru Gandhi dynasty. Weaponised with these reports of Shah Nawaz Khan Committee and Justice Khosla Commission report, congress government in 1992, proceeded to confer the award of posthumous ‘Bharat Ratna’ to Netaji – apparently to honour him, but actually it was a carefully designed cunning process to establish that Netaji actually died in alleged plane crash. Naturally some patriotic citizens of India filed one PIL (public interest litigation) case in Hon’ble High Court at Calcutta, against the notification by government of India. Smelling an impending defeat government of India, by appeal took the case to Hon’ble Supreme Court of India where government of India hoped to manipulate victory in this case. Armaments of Shah Khan Committee & Justice Khosla Commission reports, money power, political manipulations could not procure victory for government of India in this case.

By Supreme Court order, government of India’s notification of awarding ‘posthumous Bharat Ratna’ was cancelled in the year 1997iIn 1998, Kolkata High Court, in verdict in a PIL case against government of India, ordered the institution of a fresh commission to investigate into Netaji Mystery.

In 1999 government of India notified the institution of Justice Mukherjee Commission of Inquiry, headed by Retd. Supreme court Justice M.K. Mukherjee chosen by the then CJI (Chief Justice of India).

In 2005, Justice Mukherjee Commission report was submitted to government of India. This report, along many things, has clearly told that : (1) There is no plane crash on 18 August, 1945 in Taihoku. (2) There is no proof of Netaji’s death and cremation there. (3) The alleged ashes, kept in Renkoji Temple, Tokyo, are therefore, not of NetajiSubhas Chandra Bose.

In the volumes of the report, contains opinions of DNA and Forensic Science experts from India, Japan, Germany, UK, USA which clearly tell that from end product of cremated human body, identifiable DNA materials can not be obtained for logical conclusions. On the contrary, one news of DNA testing of the alleged ashes, kept in Renkoji Temple is being circulated in printing and visual media, funded by interested circles – as if DNA test of human ash (end product of cremated human body), is prescribed by Science journals and text books. Very carefully and cunningly those medias and other elements are confusing in people’s mind – the process of burning vis. Cremation and composition of human ash vis. Human remains.

Dozens of witnesses in both Shah Nawaz Khan Committee and Khosla Commission have deposed that the alleged body was cremated and ashes were preserved. The urn containing this ‘Ashes’ was inspected by experts in 1945-1946. as per report in CSDIC File – INA / 273.(1946) experts could not see any identifiable burnt human bones and they even opined that “but ashes don’t prove who the dead man is, they might be any body’s or they may not be those of a human being at all”. …. In 1989 the Renkoji Temple was burnt into ashes by a devastating fire. Then appeared a new specimen in urn which shows – big human partially burnt body – bones of skull, hip and long bones of a human being – who has been partially cremated / burnt.

This clearly shows that the specimen of 1945-46 has been fudged / manipulated. This is a criminal violation of laws of specimen preservation. This is a criminal design to suit the interest of the dynasty’s / persons who want to prove that Netaji died in the plane crash. This group wants to circumvent the primary fact that there was no plane crash in August 1945 in Taihoku airport, Taiwan. This is a criminal design – criminality in confusing the people’s mind, manipulation or fudging the specimen for perjury, of violation of process of natural justice. This is also against all logical human thinking, against science, against forensic science. As a nation with minimum quantum and quality of intellect we must come forward to protest against this finely, carefully crafted criminal design against all values, laws, logic and science.

Human ashes do not contain identifiable DNA. If specimen is fudged / manipulated some DNA may be available, but this will never indicate the person. In maximum, it can indicate a dynasty. Most possibly, some body parts of the dynasty concerned has been used for fudging here to suit the criminal interest. The evidence of the fact of no plane crash is primary and confirmatory, on the contrary DNA test is always circumstantial and only a corroborative evidence.

Dr M S PAL
mspalmch@yahoo.co.in
MBBS (Cal), MS (General Surgery),M.Ch (Cardio Thoracic Surgery).
Associate Proffesor, Cardio Thoracic Surgery, Medical College, Kolkata.
Deponent and Witness in Hon’ble Justice Manoj Mukherjee Commission of Inquiry(’99-‘05)

Expert says Handwritings match

B Lal, the expert appointed by HindustanTimes.com to match Bhagwanji’s and Netaji’s handwritings, has concluded that they are of “common authorship”.

Among other things, Lal says:
There is “no evidence to show that the questioned (Bhagwanji’s) writing has been made by a writer other than SCB (Subhas Chandra Bose) by imitating/copying the writings of SCB”.
Bhagwanji tried to hide his identity but failed.
There are “…similarities in general and individual writing habits, …suggesting common authorship of questioned writings and admitted writings of SCB”.

While pointing to the lack of muscular control, sign of old age and slight tremor in some of the writings, Lal also observes “a reproduction of some peculiarities that even decades could not hide”. As examples, he points to the habit, both of Bhagwanji and Netaji, of using insertion marks to introduce words between sentences, over writing on letters and underlining and bracketing passages for emphasis, making strokes more prominent and writing letters in a certain combination.

Indeed, matching the samples was no easy task. Most of Bhagwanji’s handwriting samples were notes left on the margins of pages. Also, most of the writing samples belonged to the ’70s and ’80s, whereas the samples of Netaji’s writing were of pre-1943 years. To complicate matters, Bhagwanji had also written in upper case to disguise his hand.

Lal has 44 years of experience studying and analysing documents, both for the government and for private groups. Before retiring as Additional Director of National Institute of Criminology and Forensic Sciences, he was the Chief Government Examiner in Questioned Documents. (Lal will defend his report, if the Mukherjee Commission so demands.)

Handwriting analysis is admissible evidence in courts nowadays, and is as significant as fingerprint analysis. In fact, Mukherjee Commission visited Faizabad treasury on November 26, 2001, to collect samples for DNA and handwriting tests from Bhagwanji’s belongings preserved there. (The samples may reach the Commission’s Kolkata office in early May.)

By Anuj Dhar

Source: Hindustan Times

“My coming out not in India’s interest”

Bhagwanji had entered India in the 1950′s from Nepal with the help of Mahadeo Prasad Misra, a Sanskrit teacher working in Nepal.

Misra is no more, but many details on Bhagwanji’s early days in India are known to his grandson Rajkumar, 50, who grew up seeing Bhagwanji. These details are now part of the documentation that Mukherjee Commission has on the Netaji case.

The key figure, however, was Rajkumar’s mother Saraswati Devi who died in November 2000, little before she could depose before the Commission. Saraswati Devi served Bhagwanji from 1955, but it was only after his death in 1985, that she conceded Bhagwanji was indeed Netaji.

In 1955-56, Rajkumar and his widowed mother came to live with Misra, who was staying in a rented house at Sringar Nagar in Lucknow with Bhagwanji.

Soon, they moved to Neemsar, a place close to the Indo-Nepal border, where they took shelter in a run-down Shiva temple. It was here in April 1962 that Atul Sen, an associate of Netaji, met and recognised the leader in his disguise.

Sen returned to Kolkata soon after, and reported the matter to Indian National Army (INA) Secret Service agent Dr Pabitra Mohan Roy and historian Dr R C Majumdar.

Dr Pabitra Mohan Roy had on Netaji’s order undertaken a submarine journey from Burma to India to prepare the ground for INA’s assault on Kohima. However, he was caught and sentenced to death. The sentence was later commuted on Gandhiji’s request to the British.

During those days Dr Pabitra had worked closely with Netaji; whatever the circumstances, he could not have mistaken the leader for anyone else. So indeed, when the doctor met Bhagwanji in Neemsar, the former was convinced of the man who stood before him.

Later, in a letter written to Bhagwanji, the doctor acknowledged the leader: “…I wish to say something – your own words – ‘You are my intelligence officer – without fear or favour must… act.’ …I will have to tell you about myself – what exactly do I think of myself – Keeping in mind Ma Kaali, Bharatmata (Mother India) and your feet, with a firm mind… I can tell you that just like in the past, I have the same unflinching faith and unwavering obedience, total dedication and loyalty towards you and…I am determined to always remain so. Give me your blessings.”

In December 1962, Dr Pabitra took into confidence Leela Roy, one of Netaji close friends and ‘didi’ to all revolutionary freedom fighters. Leela Roy acted quickly and by January 1963 had established contact with Bhagwanji.

In March, she along with Dr Pabitra, Shaila Sen (identity unknown) and Samar Guha (Netaji’s follower who is 82) called on Bhagwanji, a meeting where Srikant Sharma , 93, was also present. Sharma was one of Bhawanji trusted men and he recalls Bhagwanji’s reluctance to meet Leela Roy. Bhagwanji sent word through Sharma: “My coming out is neither in the country’s interest nor in my interest.”

Later, Bhagwanji did meet Leela Roy, which a man close to her confirms on the conditions of anonymity.

Leela Roy remained a great source of help to him until her death in 1970. However, before she died, Leela Roy wrote to Netaji’s dearest friend Dilip Roy on September 7, 1963 (on Bhagwanji’s order): “I wanted to tell you something about your friend… he is alive – in India.”

Some More Important Links:
Bhagwanji’s secret letter to one of his followers
Medical advice sent to Bhagwanji
Bhagwanji’s homage to Leela Roy

By Anuj Dhar

Source: Hindustan Times