Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose’s family can meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi at his residence at 5 pm on October 14. His family had been requesting for an appointment with Modi to discuss the declassification of secret files on Netaji under the custody of the Central government
for months.
Netaji’s family has already drawn up a list of relatives, who would travel to New Delhi to meet the Prime Minister, and has figured out an agenda for the meeting. “We would like to ask for the declassification of all files on Netaji with the Central government and state governments. We would also like documents such as the Mukherjee commission’s report on Netaji’s mysterious disappearance to be tabled in Parliament,”
Chandra Kumar Bose, the family’s spokesperson, told Millennium Post. Another member of Netaji’s family, Abhijit Roy (Sarat Chandra Bose’s grandson) said he was hopeful that the meeting with Modi would yield positive results.
“We are fighting for the revelation of truth on Netaji’s disappearance in 1945 for years together. In this connection, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s efforts to release the 64 classified files on Netaji and also the Cabinet papers of 1938-47 must be lauded,” Roy told Millennium Post.
Meanwhile, the West Bengal government on Monday made public the cabinet papers on Netaji and allied subjects from 1938 to 1947. It had declassified 64 Netaji files earlier this month.