Researcher Shares Subhas Chandra Bose’s Great Escape Route

Baripada, 22.01.2021(sandhan news/ Lingaraj panda):-  In 1941, 44-year-old Subhas Chandra Bose was under house arrest with the police guarding the entire area outside his Elgin Road residence in south Kolkata. According to noted Netaji researcher Jayanta Chowdhury, the black German Wanderer sedan which Bose rode for his great escape on January 16, 1941 rolled out in the dark. It took AJC Bose Road from Elgin Road and then the Mahatma Gandhi Road and crossed the Hooghly River via Howrah Bridge to enter the adjacent Howrah district. The car then took GT Road to reach Burdwan district, located about 100 km from the state capital. According to the information available with IANS, Bose went to Santiniketan in Bolpur in Birbhum district where he took the blessings from Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore before setting out for Delhi and again returned to Burdwan district. “From Burdwan he took a train namely ‘Frontier Mail’ and reached Delhi in disguise of Mohammed Ziauddin. I don’t support the theory of Bose taking the Kalka Mail from Gomoh station in what is now Jharkhand and reaching Delhi. It is completely concocted,” Chowdhury, who was also one of the deponents in the Justice Mukherjee Commission, told IANS. Gomoh railway station was renamed Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Gomoh railway station in 2009 in honour Bose’s long journey from out of the British Empire in 1941. The Centre has decided to celebrate Netaji’s birth anniversary on January 23 as ‘Parakram Diwas’ from now onwards. On Wednesday, Indian Railways also renamed the Howrah-Kalka Mail as ‘Netaji Express’ ahead of Netaji’s 125th birth anniversary celebrations.