24/01/2016 100 Secret Files Relating To Netaji Subhash Bose Declassified, May Unveil Facts About His Controversial Death Prime Minister Narendra Modi today made public digital copies of 100
secret files relating to Subhash Chandra Bose on his 119th birth
anniversary, which could throw some light on the controversy over his
death.
The files were declassified and put on digital display at
the National Archives of India (NAI) here by the Prime Minister, who
pressed a button in the presence of Bose family members and Union
Ministers Mahesh Sharma and Babul Supriyo. PM Modi declassifying digital version of the files |
Later, Modi and his ministerial colleagues went around glancing at
the declassified files, spending over half an hour at the National
Archives. He also spoke to the members of the Bose family.
The
NAI also plans to release digital copies of 25 declassified files on
Bose in the public domain every month. In October last year, the Prime
Minister had met the family members of Netaji and announced that the
government would declassify the files relating to the leader whose
disappearance 70 years ago remains a mystery.
While two
commissions of inquiry had concluded that Netaji had died in a plane
crash in Taipei on August 18, 1945, a third probe panel, headed by
Justice M K Mukherjee, had contested it and suggested that Bose was
alive after that.
The controversy had also split members of the
Bose family too. The first lot of 33 files were declassified by the
Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) and handed over to the NAI on December 4,
last year.
Subsequently, the Ministries of Home Affairs and External Affairs too
initiated the process of declassification of files relating to Bose in
their respective collection which were then transferred over to the NAI,
it added.
In his reaction to the declassification, Chandra Kumar
Bose, spokesperson of the Bose family and grand-nephew of Subhash
Chandra Bose said, "We welcome this step by Prime Minister
wholeheartedly. This is a day of transparency in India."
Earlier
in day, he told PTI, "We feel that certain very important files were
destroyed during the Congress regime in order to hide the truth. We have
documentary evidence to understand this. So we feel that the Indian
government should take steps to ensure the release of files lying in
Russia, Germany, UK, USA
