PIB tweet on Netaji's death welcomed by nephew

The Press Information Bureau's tweet announcing August 18 as Netaji Subhas Chandra Boses death anniversary has been welcomed by one of his grandnephews, author Ashis Ray.

Ray said that investigations by him between 1987 and 1995 had confirmed the charismatic freedom fighter's death in a plane crush in Taipei on August 18 in 1945.

The Centre in reply to an RTI in 2017 had confirmed that Netaji had died on that day, he said.

The PIB of the Government of India had made an announcement on August 18 acknowledging Subhas Chandra Bose's death on that day. I welcome it, Ray told PTI from London over the telephone on Wednesday.

The PIB had on Sunday tweeted, "#PIB remembers the great freedom fighter Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose on his death anniversary. #Netaji #subhashchandrabose."