Mamata 'shocked and hurt' by Jaitley's Netaji tweet
August 18, 2016  18:31
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 Mamata Banerjee, the chief minister of Bengal, said  that she was shocked by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley's "hurtful tweet" on legendary freedom fighter Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, who is believed by many to have lived even after the reports of his death in an air crash in Taiwan in 1945.

The tweet, which is now missing Mr Jaitley's Twitter timeline, paid tribute to Netaji on his "death anniversary" and was interpreted as the first acknowledgement from the government that the iconic leader died in the crash on 18 August, 1945.

Mamata Banerjee was among the first to react. She wrote, "Today is Raksha Bandhan I don't want to hurt anybody. But shocked with @arunjaitley Ji hurtful tweet this morning on Netaji.We're all hurt."

Netaji's death became one of India's biggest mysteries and remains an emotional subject in Bengal. Two government inquiries concluded that Netaji died in the air crash but a third disagreed.
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