Day 478

 

Actually, today, I was just going through some old memories. Sometimes, it’s necessary to look into the past also. Well, it can be said that sometimes if we look into the past then there are many things pop up in mind. There are few topics on which we can have lengthy discussions and there won’t be any formal conclusions. There will be a lot of theories in the end. Some theories will contradict other theories, some will support each other and few will be independent ones. But we won’t have any final clear conclusion.

We can find a lot of things in our history after independence. There are still few mysteries which aren’t solved till date. With every passing year, a lot of theories are being added but there is no final conclusion. Well, let’s take the example of the assassination of former Prime Minister, Mr Lal Bahadur Shastri. I don’t understand how a current Prime Minister can be assassinated in such a way and there won’t be any formal enquiry about it. As we know that when Mr Shastri died, he was in Tashkent, Russia, for bilateral peace talk with Pakistani dictator. This peace talk was initiated by Russia, which was a strong ally of India. So, it was obvious that Mr Shastri couldn’t refuse it.

All the things were under control. All the peace agreements were signed as per plan. But next day, Mr Shastri was found dead and the reason of death was heart attack. Now, here the suspicion arises. How come he died the very night when he signed the peace treaty? The answer can be that heart attack can come anytime. Okay, this theory is accepted. But later on, Russian authorities conducted their own enquiry and found that Mr Shastri was poisoned. Russian authorities arrested the waiter who served the last meal to Mr Shastri but there wasn’t any further information about that waiter. Second question is that under diplomatic immunity, if a person is travelling on diplomatic passport and he dies in foreign country then the dead body can’t go for autopsy or post mortem. Then how the statement was made that Mr Shastri died due to heart attack?

Well, when his dead body was brought back to India then also there was no post mortem conducted to know the reason of his death. On whose orders or directions this was done? Was this to hide the real reason of the death or was this to hide any conspiracy? Well, it’s being said that all these was done on the instructions of Mrs Indira Gandhi, who wanted to be the Prime Minister of India after her father’s death. But in democratic country, there are few protocols and rules have to be followed. Anyway, it’s true that Mrs Gandhi became Prime Minister after Mr Shastri but was this a murder for the Prime Minister’s post?

It’s obvious that after 1965 war between India and Pakistan, Mr Shastri has gained a lot of respect and popularity and he had become a national hero. But a lot of things can happen in politics. Mrs Gandhi became Prime Minister after Mr Shastri hence it’s still a theory that she was behind all these things but there isn’t any prove till day which can say that indeed Mrs Gandhi was after all these things. It’s true that there was some drift between Mr Shastri and Mrs Gandhi and both of them were on opposite axis in the same party. So, it’s obvious that allegations will made on Mrs Gandhi.

Well, this isn’t the only case in post-independence India. There are a lot of high profile mysterious deaths. Plane crashes of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, Dr Homi Jahangir Bhabha and Sanjay Gandhi are still fresh in minds and it’s still highly debatable. It’s still a heated debate that Jawaharlal Nehru was indirectly involved in the alleged plane crash in which Subhas Chandra Bose was travelling. Many people still believe that Subhas Chandra Bose didn’t died in that plan crash and he was present during the Tashkent summit. But there are few people who think that Subhas Chandra Bose died in that plan crash. Actually, there is always conflict of ideologies and there is no final conclusion.

In the case of air crash which led to the death of Dr Homi Jahangir Bhabha is concerned then it’s alleged that it was done by the FBI and CIA. Actually, in India, Dr Bhabha is still respected and is called as the Father of Nuclear Programme in India. Dr Bhabha had already established Atomic Energy Establishment in his life time and he was the director of the Establishment. But during that time, NASA and American authorities didn’t think that India is capable of becoming member of the Elite Space Club. So, it’s rumoured that the plane crash was orchestrated by CIA and FBI to help NASA and to make India a laggard in terms of space programmes. Again there is no direct proves of this and it’s a theory only. But at the end, it’s true that we have really suffered a lot in our space programmes due to death of Dr Bhabha.