Prime Minister Narendra Modi will release the digital copies of 100 files related to Subhash Chandra Bose on his birth anniversary today.
“The National Archives of India (NAI) is placing 100 files relating to Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose in public domain after preliminary conservation treatment and digitization. On the occasion of the birth anniversary of Netaji, the Prime Minister will release the digital copies of these files in public domain,” an official release said on Friday. Modi, in his meeting with members of Bose family here on October 14, last year, had announced that the government would declassify the files relating to Bose and make them accessible to public.
On September 18, last year the Mamata Banerjee-led Bengal government declassified 64 secret files relating to Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose. Banerjee asked the Centre to follow suit. Fulfilling a long-standing demand, Banerjee described as “historic” the declassification of the closely guarded files on one of the country’s foremost nationalist leaders and said people should know the truth.
Hidden in police and government lockers for years, the 64 files containing 12,744 pages were declassified in the presence of Bose’s family members who had been demanding that information on the leader of the Azad Hind Fauj (Indian National Army-INA) be made public.