''Netaji still alive and healthy:'' son of former aide

Hardoi, June 15 (UNI) A son of a former aide of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose today said Netaji is still alive and healthy at the age of 109 yrs and he had met the revolutionary freedom fighter a week back in the forests of Mujaihna under Thangaon area of Sitapur district in Uttar Pradesh. This has been claimed by Rajendra Dwivedi, who is the son of a former aide to Netaji, late freedom fighter Krishnadutt Dwivedi. Mr Dwivedi is sitting on a dharna at the collectorate here demanding the Mukherjee Report on Netaji be made public and the government issue a white paper on the matter. He said his father was a member of the Azad Hind Fauz and closely associated with Netaji. ''My father and his elder brother Ramdayal Dwivedi were close associates of Netaji,'' Mr Dwivedi -- also a leader of Bharatiya Subhash Sena -- claimed. ''At the age of 18 yrs, I first met Netaji at Phoolbagh Ground in Kanpur in presence of my late father. Since then, I have kept in regular touch with him,'' Mr Dwivedi emphasised. He maintained Netaji had been living anonymous lives sometimes as Gumnami Baba in Faizabad, sometimes as a saint in Dehradun. ''I have undertaken this movement on his (Netaji) directives only,'' he underlined. ''Taiwan government has already denied any air crash took place at the Taipeh Airport on August 18, 1945. ''Even USA's secret agency CIA had said Netaji was alive in 1964 and again repeated their claims in 2002, when Netaji was 105 yrs old,'' Mr Dwivedi added. He asserted that under a secret agreement with the British, the central government was scuttling any news about Gumnami Baba from becoming public.

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