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Kolkata, May 3: A bust of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose was today found damaged in a park named after the freedom fighter in the heart of Kolkata.
Police investigating the defacement of the artwork said preliminary investigation revealed that some miscreants last night threw a bomb at the bust and damaged it. The park, named after the patriot, is situated at East Canal Road in Rajabazar area under Narkeldanga police station in the central part of the city.
A police picket has been posted inside the park as the administration was apprehending protest from various groups over the defacement.
Kolkata Municipal Corporation officials visited the area and inspected the damaged portion of the bust.
The city and its neighbourhood had witnessed a series of vandalism of statues and busts of many stalwarts after a statue of Lenin was demolished in Tripura soon the assembly elections there.
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Kolkata, Jan 23: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today
reiterated that the Indian people have the right to know what happened to the
last days of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, saying the patriot was also not given
adequate recognition as he deserved from the country.
After paying floral tributes on the life-sized
statue of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose at Maidan to mark his 121st birth
anniversary, Ms Banerjee said " We are very keen to know what had happened
to Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose after his disappearance in 1940."
" We should do something to unravel the
mystery of his disappearance and after that" Ms Banerjee, who is the first
Indian leader to make public all the classified files related to Netaji. The
classified files, which had with the custody of the West Bengal government has
not mentioned anything about the death of Netaji.
Ms Banerjee said the people should know the
truth of Netaji's disappearance.
The chief minister also does not believed that
Netaji Subash Chandra Bose, born on this day in Cuttck in 1897, did not die on
August 18 1945, in plane crash at Taihoku, Japanese Taiwan, now Taipei in
Taiwan.
Hidden in police and government lockers for
years, the 64 files containing 12,744 pages were declassified in the presence
of Bose’s family members who have been demanding that information on the leader
of the Azad Hind Fauj (Indian National Army-INA) be made public. The files
displayed first in 2015 in glass cascades in Kolkata Police Museum is de
accessible to the public.
Recently, Ms Banerjee also sought off letter to
Prime Minister Narendra Modi urging him that the government of India should
declare national holiday for birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda and Netaji
on January 12 and 23. UNI
New
Delhi, Jan 23: President Ram Nath Kovind and Prime Minister Narendra Modi
on Tuesday paid tributes to freedom fighter Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose on 121st
birth anniversary.
In a tweet, the President said,'On his birthday, I offer my
tributes to Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose. He remains one of our most beloved
national heroes and an icon of India's freedom struggle.'
Paying tributes to the leader, the PM said, 'The valour of
Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose makes every Indian proud. We bow to this great
personality on his Jayanti.' UNI
