PIB withdraws tweet on Netaji s death anniversary

Kolkata | Monday | 19th August, 2019

Summary:

Kolkata: The Press Information Bureau (PIB) has withdrawn its tweet on Sunday, mentioning August 18 as the death anniversary of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, who is claimed to have died in a plane crash at Taihoku in 1945. Following pressure from a large section of people, PIB withdrew its tweet on Monday. The Centre has declassified documents on Netaji but those do not throw any significant light on the case. Trinamool Congress MP Sukhendu Shekhar Roy has demanded that PIB tender an apology for its tweet. It may be mentioned that director Srijit Mukherjee is making a film on Gumnami baba, who used to stay at Naimisharanya in Uttar Pradesh, on the lines of the Manoj Mukherjee Commission's report..