As Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose’s family took to Kolkata’s streets demanding declassification of the remaining documents, his grandnephew - Surya Bose - who met PM Narendra Modi in Berlin on Tuesday, has said that the PM would consider their demand to declassify files on the freedom fighter.
We want both the central and state governments to declassify files on Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose immediately. This is not an appeal to them but it is our demand. There are around 64 secret files with the state government and over 100 files with the central government. The common man wants to know what has happened to the leader. 23 members of the family have written six times to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee requesting her to declassify the files that were with the state government but got no response. We want her to declassify all the files and it’s her duty to do so. But if she fails to do so, she must step down from her chair.
– Netaji’s grandnephew Chandra Kumar Bose
Surya Kumar Bose had raised the demand for declassifying all secret files with Modi against the backdrop of a controversy over successive Congress governments spying on Netaji’s family for two decades.
He also claimed that most members of the Bose family did not believe the theory that the freedom fighter had died in a plane crash in Taipei in 1945, days after Japan surrendered in the Second World War.
It was Subhash Bose and his INA that gave the final blow which sent the British packing and this has been admitted by Prime Minister Attlee, by Lord Mountbatten. It is shocking that a government of independent India had spied on Netaji’s family.
– Surya Kumar Bose
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