CALCUTTA, Jan 23: A little over 10 months since the move was launched with the hope that the ``new'' Union Government would open up the ``Pandora box of Subhas Chandra Bose's case'', there is nobody to own up to the move now.Both the politcal parties, the State BJP and the All India Forward Bloc (AIFB), and scholars who relaunched it, seem to be willy-nilly reconciled to the fact that ``after all, Bose is destined to be, at least officially, a Trotsky of Indian revolution, whom no socio-political change can rehabilitate''.The AIFB, which seemed to have developed ``a little detest about its big political ally, the CPI(M), for its clever indifference on the issue'', thinks that ``going to people is the only option''.Some of the State BJP leaders, who initially spoke with confidence that ``our Government would have the guts to unveil the mystery once and for all and give clearance for the scholars to the thousands of secret documents in Indian and Russian archives'', shy away from queries now.AIFBall-India General Secretary Debabrata Biswas was candid enough to admit that all other political parties, including the ones in the BJP-led alliance, have taken advantage of the Forward Bloc's lack of strength in the Lok Sabha.Talking about the CPI(M), the biggest in the Left alliance in the Parliament, Biswas said, ``When we talk about Bose, whether it's the BJP or CPI(M) or the Congress, all are united to gag and muzzle the truth.''Giving an example, Biswas said: ``Even our friendly United Front Government expressed a strange difficulty in opening the Government documents in archives.''``The former defence minister Mulayam Singh Yadav, after a lot of pressure, could release about 700 documents and plainly told us that they could not open up the rest, for they were top secret,'' Biswas told The Indian Express. ``For the present Government, there's pressure from the RSS too,'' Biswas added.An allegation which the local RSS leader refutes. Bansi Lal Soni, the Calcutta-based in-charge ofSangh, said: ``This is a lie; like all others, we too want the truth to be established and the Union Government should rehabilitate Bose officially, and they should ask the Government why it's not being done.''``We can agree that there are political implications entailing reopening of the case and it might take some time, but the new Government would have certainly given us the permission to study the secret Government documents lying in the National Archives,'' feels Dr Purobi Roy, a scholar trying to pursue the Russian archival material on Bose,``Nor did the Government do anything to get the Indian scholars permission to see the papers in Russian archives.''Incidentally, Dr Roy, who is associated with a prime national institute for historical research, met Union Minister and the former BJP president Murli Manohar Joshi early last year and discussed with him the issue of Government permission for Russian archives.She said, ``After the meeting, I felt this Government, unlike others, would dosomething to establish the truth.'' But now she feels, ``We were made to believe in an illusion then.''Biswas, who claims to have met Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and Pramod Mahajan several times last year on the issue, said: ``But we cannot wait, and we have launched a nation-wide campaign today, on Netaji's 102nd birthday, which will end on March 23 in a public meeting in Delhi, and then we will submit a memorandum to the President.''
