Synopsis Incidentally, former PM Narasimha Rao had proposed to confer Bharat Ratna on Netaji posthumously, declassified files on Netaji released in 2016 had revealed. Subhas Chandra Bose’s daughter Anita B Pfaff Related (This story originally appeared in on Jan 23, 2021)KOLKATA: Subhas Chandra Bose’s daughter, Anita B Pfaff, has opposed the demand to confer the Bharat Ratna on the iconic freedom fighter “now”, which she feels is “so late”. “We have opposed giving Netaji the Bharat Ratna so late. Many people of a lesser stature have received the award. It would have been appropriate to confer it to Netaji as one of the first recipients but not now,” she told TOI in an email interview.