Inclusion of Anita Pfaff in high-power panel irks Netaji’s kin, researchers

By Soudhriti Bhabani Kolkata, Jan 21 : At a time when the Centre has constituted a high-level committee headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to commemorate the 125th birth anniversary of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, a section of Bose’s family and researchers are unhappy with the inclusion of Anita Bose Pfaff in the panel.
“Anita Pfaff is not an acceptable member in the birth celebrations committee. Her birth certificate does not mention Subhas Chandra Bose as father at all,” Rajyashree Chaudhuri, Netaji’s great grand niece, told IANS.
Chaudhuri said Pfaff has been manipulated into the Bose family, vide affidavit, by some family members and the Nehru government, as per the declassified files.
Anita Bose Pfaff is a German economist and the only daughter of Subhas Chandra Bose and Emilie Schenkl. She has previously been a professor at the University of Augsburg as well as a politician in the Social Democratic Party in Germany.
“She or her guardian, the so called wife Frau Emilie Schenkl, never came before any inquiry committee or commission on Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose,” she said.
According to Chaudhary, all natural instincts of being the daughter of Netaji are absent in her and she is only interested in Netaji being declared and in the air crash on August 18, 1945 and bring back the ‘ashes’ from the Renkoji Temple in Tokyo.