Photographs of two postage stamps, which were released on the 67th birth anniversary of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose were among the 189 items, which were retrieved during the cross-checking and verification of items belonging to Gumnami Baba. The cross-verification will be completed in a week.

LUCKNOW: Photographs of two postage stamps, which were released on the 67th birth anniversary of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose were among the 189 items/articles, which were retrieved during the cross-checking and verification of items belonging to Gumnami Baba alias Bhagwanji (believed to be Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose in exile by a section of the society).

The retrieval of Gumnami Baba’s belongings is currently underway at the district treasury of Faizabad, and the photographs of the postage stamps surfaced on Friday.

“Of the 189 items, we came across photographs of two postage stamps, which were released on the 67th birth anniversary of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose (probably in 1963),” Shakti Singh told TOI from Faizabad. Shakti Singh is also the owner of Ram Bhawan, where Bhagwanji lived the final years of his life.

Another interesting find of the day was that of a write-up by Samar Guha published in a newspaper on March 13, 1978 that Netaji is still alive and that he has gone to Russia, Shakti Singh said, and added, “Retrieval and cross-verification of articles and belongings of Gumnami Baba would continue on Saturday as well.”

Apart from the above mentioned items/belongings, a huge number of clippings of various news items cutting across different fields/beats, which were directly or indirectly related to Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, including The Illustrated Weekly, were also retrieved at the district treasury.

Shakti Singh also exuded confidence that the retrieval and cross-verification of the belongings of Gumnami Baba is in all likelihood would be completed in another 7-10 days.

However, Singh lamented the delay allegedly on the part of the technical committee, which consists of senior officers of state archaeological department. “Director of State Museum (Lucknow) was supposed to visit on Monday, but till now the team is yet to turn up,” Shakti Singh said, and added that once the team visits here, it would be in a position to ascertain that which items would be displayed and kept in stock.

