KHOSLA COMMISSION-CONSPIRACY EXTENDED

Why the commission formed?

Activities of the commission

Voices raised against the commission

WHY THE COMMISSION FORMED?

• A planned conspiracy to erase Subhas from people's heart via "Shahnawaz Committee" didn't quench the thrist. They wanted to what really happened to their beloved leader.
• This became more prominent when in 1968, MP Prof Samar Guha came forward & 350 MP unanimously forwarded a memorandum to the President Mr Zakir Hussain .
• Daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru, Smt Indira Gandhi was Prime Minister at that time. Mr Hussain on 24th may, 1968 wrote a letter to Prof Samar Guha stating that there was no need of any commission on netaji's dissappearance issue.
• Then luck favoured. In 1969 congress party splitted over the issue of president-ship election. With the help of communists, candidate of Indira Gandhi lost & V V Giri became the president. In the wheel of events V V Giri was affectionated by Netaji. He came forward to organize a new inquiry committee on Netaji.

                                          V V GIRI

ACTIVITIES OF THE COMMISSION:

In 1970, a commission was formed lead by G D Khosla, a retired judge of Punjab High Court which is called "Khosla commission". The commission gave its verdict same as "Shahnawaz commission"-ie  Netaji died on Taihoku plane-crash & the ashes kept in Renkoji Temple is of Netaji.

VOICES  RAISED AGAINST THE COMMISSION:

Regarding impartiality of the commission-the least you say, the better you do.

During the investigative period Khosla worked as a biographer of Indira Gandhi.

At the time of submission of his report Khosla wrote a book called "Last days of Netaji" where he commented various ugly statements about Netaji for which Khosla was hooted in the parliament several times. Though Indira Gandhi praised him highly many times.

Besides these, the commission never visited the foreign sites of importance like Shahnawaz committee.

All these events failed the commission to prove its impartiality.

The epitaph for the Khosla Commision Report as well as its predecessor, was written by former Prime Minister Morarji Desai on August 28, 1978 in the Lok Sabha. He said:


"The Shah Nawaz Committee and the Khosla Commission hold the report of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose's death following a plane crash as true. Since then, reasonable doubts have been cast on the correctness in the two reports and various important contradictions in the testimony of the witnesses have been noticed. 
     Some further contemporary official documentary records have also become available. In the light of those doubts and contradictions and those records, government finds it difficult to accept that the earlier conclusions are decisive."

                                  PM MORARJI DESAI