Road to be named after Netaji

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GUWAHATI Aug 31 – The Lakhra Road will be named in the memory of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, and a bronze bust of him will be installed near an intersection at Paltan Bazar. This was announced by Capt Robin Bordoloi, MLA, while addressing a rally at Lal Ganesh to welcome some volunteers who are travelling from Moirang in Manipur to New Delhi to highlight the role of Netaji, and establish his contributions in the correct perspective.In a meeting presided over by noted social worker Ajay Dutta, several speakers spoke about Netaji and his legacy. It was stated that without his strong stance, Assam might have become a part of Pakistan. Among those in attendance were a soldier of the Indian National Army, Umesh Chandra Devchoudhury, litterateur Atulananda Goswami, senior advocate Jamini Phukan, Bijoya Chakravarty, and Apurba Bhattacharya. The group of volunteers who would reach New Delhi on October 21, among other demands has pressed for discussion of the Mukherjee Commission Report in Parliament. From Guwahati, the group of volunteers today left for Shillong, and from there would return to Pandu, and then leave for West Bengal. source: assam tribune

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Netaji’s ‘volunteers’ march to Delhi
SHILLONG, Aug 31 – To press the Centre to place the Mukherjee Commission report in the Parliament, fifteen persons from the North East under the banner of Azad Hind Volunteers (AHV) have embarked on a ‘Delhi Chalo’ march from Manipur. The volunteers started their journey on August 25 on a ‘rath’ from Moirang in Manipur and will cover eight States before handing over a memorandum to President Pratibha Patil, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee. The ‘Delhi Chalo’ will highlight with documentary evidence regarding the “national and international conspiracy” against Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose and on his disappearance, Azad Hind Volunteers said. “By not tabling the Mukherjee Commission report in Parliament, the government is depriving the people of knowing the truth,” Naba Bhattacharjee, an AHV member, said. “The Commission has pointed that the Taiwan authorities confirmed that there was no air crash on August 18, 1945 nor were any such incident eight months prior or after the date,” Bhattacharjee said. The ‘rath’ has traversed some of the major towns of the North East like Kohima, Dimapur, Tezpur, Nagaon and Guwahati and are scheduled to address a slew of meetings in over 50 places before reaching Delhi on September 21. The Justice Monoj Kumar Mukherjee Commission (1999-2005) was the third panel set up by the Union Government to probe the disappearance of Netaji. It followed Shah Nawaz Commission (1956) and Khosla Commission (1970-1974). – PTI