Netaji's daughter Anita Bose Pfaff will miss the unveiling of her father's statue at India Gate by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday, but would like to meet the PM to discuss "the conditions and procedures" for bringing back Subhas Bose's remains to India.
The nearly 80-year-old Bose Pfaff told PTI, that she would like the remains now kept at Renkoji Temple in Japan, since the plane crash at Taipei after which Netaji died at a hospital, to be brought back with due honour.
"I would like to discuss (with the Prime Minister) the conditions and procedures for a return of my father's remains ," said Bose Pfaff, an economist by profession, in a telephonic interview with PTI.
She said that though she had received an invitation to attend the unveiling of Netaji's statue, the short notice made it difficult for her to undertake the long distance travel from Germany where she lives. The statue is being unveiled at India Gate under a canopy where decades earlier the image of King George V, against whom he rebelled had stood.
"I would have wanted to combine a trip to India with a meeting with the Prime Minister … but I understand he is busy at the moment. Among other things, the Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina is on a state visit," said Bose Pfaff, whose husband Martin Pfaff, is a former member of the German Parliament from the Social Democratic Party.