Nehru snooped upon key Bose family members : Declassified IB files

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TNN | May 10, 2015, 03.39 AM IST
Declassification of Netaji files country's duty: Modi - The Times of India

KOLKATA: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday told members of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose's family that it was the country's responsibility to resolve the mystery around his disappearance.

Modi met Netaji's kin for half an hour at Raj Bhavan on Saturday.

When they reiterated the demand for declassification of secret files on Netaji, the PM said: "Aap ise desh ki maang mat kahiye. Yeh desh ka kartavya hai (Don't call it a people's demand, it is the nation's duty)". The meeting was arranged at the eleventh hour despite Modi's packed schedule.

Modi invited all members of the Netaji family to Delhi to discuss the issues, including declassification of files. "We have to get together, work on the issues and take them forward," Modi said.

This is the most significant and unambiguous statement that any Prime Minister has made on declassification. Bose family members as well as political analysts feel it's a watershed statement that clearly signals Modi's intent to remove the 70-year-old shroud over what happened to Netaji after August 18, 1945. While he was reported to have died in an alleged plane crash off Taihoku, many discrepancies in 'eyewitness' statements, absence of any record of a plane crash in Taiwan on that date and the Nehru government's spying on Netaji's kin has led to many rejecting the crash theory.

"Prime Minister Modi gave us a patient hearing. When we told him that the people of this country deserve to know the truth about Netaji, he told us that it was the nation's responsibility to do so. He wants to meet the entire family in Delhi and deliberate these issues, including the most pressing one on declassification. We have told him that not just us, even Netaji researchers and investigative journalists who tried to get to the truth should be involved in the exercise because Netaji belongs to the entire nation and not just the family," Netaji's grandnephew Chandra Bose said.

Significantly, the meeting comes within a month of the PM meeting Chandra's brother Surya in Berlin on April 14. On that occasion too, Surya had pressed for declassification of files and received an assurance that Modi would personally look into the matter. "Please keep your word," a visibly moved Chitra Ghosh, Netaji's niece and Sarat Bose's daughter told the PM. "Please give me your blessing," Modi said in return.

The other family members present included grandnephews Samiran, Somnath, Supriyo and Chitrapriya Bose. The interaction was organized by another Netaji grandnephew who lives in Delhi and is close to BJP. "We wanted to meet the PM to follow up on the discussion he had with Surya on April 14. Just like this, the opportunity came out of the blue and we grabbed it. We have urged the PM to release the classified files on Netaji. He was extremely positive," said Chandra, who believes Modi would not have made time for the family unless he was extremely serious about the issue.

 

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Discussed here.

Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose wanted ruthless dictatorship in India for 20 years

The headline wreaks of a smear campaign. Typical Gongressi's already trying to steer and cloud any meaningful debate. Dicatorship doesn't have to be ruthless. What so different between having a dictator and a King?

Let's all use our intellectual capability for once in our life and think why would Bose feel the need for such goverance in India if this article is true? Maybe some of you cannot grasp it but ask any Indian leaving abroad their thoughts on the subject and they will agree with Bose 200%!

Every country that has developed and modernized fully had to make strong choices. Some were blessed with a population that was either highly educated, developed, homogeneous, suffered no effects of invasion or colonization, etc. Some weren't and such countries had to have some sort of harsh goverance to enforce change of ill behavior, mindsets and to help create national cohesion!

 

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#NehruSnooped: So what if Subhas Chandra Bose had ties with Nazis?
The freedom fighter's attempt to end the British Raj with the help of Germany was no reason to spy on him, like Nehru did.
Anuj Dhar
The implosion of #NetajiSnooped scandal on the national scene more than two weeks ago with an India Today cover story continues to have after-effects across media, mainstream and social. Rattled by the disclosures, certain aggrieved, inspired parties are offering counterpoints which, in my estimate, are diversionary, irrelevant and even preposterous. The World War II vintage, British Raj-era artifice of clubbing Bose with the evil Nazis or the “war crimes” of the Japanese so that he could be shown in unflattering light is being utilised to sidestep the issues germane to the whole controversy.

What Bose did during the extraordinary time of World War II gave no one in India a licence, five, ten or 20 years later, to intrude into the privacy of his near and dear ones. Under no circumstance would a democratic polity tolerate misuse of intelligence agencies meant to go after enemies of the state. Spying on former freedom fighters and patriots, journalists and even (as reported later in Mail Today) passing on illegally gathered information to former colonial masters would be completely unacceptable. It would be outrageous today and would have been more so back then when, we are told, we were ruled by great democrats — moral giants, the likes of whom we would never see.

Inversely speaking, justify or gloss over this blatantly illegal misconduct, as some eminent thinkers are shockingly attempting to, and you stand on the side of Richard “Tricky Dick” Nixon. What else was the Watergate scandal if not a snooping matter?

A case in point is of a harangue appearing in a national newspaper. In it, Bose is sought to be painted as a wannabe “dictator”.

Interestingly, the article has been tweeted by @withCongress and further retweeted/favourited by official accounts of Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee, Chhattisgarh Pradesh Congress Committee, Secretary Assam Pradesh Youth Congress Committee and Rahul Gandhi Mission.

If the writer had dug deeper, he would have found out that Bose had also used this term for Gandhi, many a time. And Gandhiji had used it for himself during the Khilafat days — because unquestionable obedience to one was a prerequisite to taking on a powerful enemy. All the Congress leaders fell in line.

Anyhow, what concerns me more in the article is the dismissal as mere “allegations” of the snooping revelations, which were based on proper, legally tenable, verifiable documentation available at the national archives in New Delhi, United Kingdom and elsewhere.

These “allegations”, the writer goes on to hallucinate, are being used by “conspiracy theorists and spin doctors... to push their agenda — that Netaji was a greater patriot than Pandit Nehru”. Then an attempt is made to demonstrate that Nehru being an anti-Nazi was actually a greater patriot than Bose who was pro-Nazi. “Bose’s admirers conveniently ignore his Faustian treaty with Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan”, we were reminded.

For the sake of argument, even if one is insisting on contextualising the entire discourse to Bose’s association with the Nazis, it must be emphasised that all that the Indian National Army leader did was not remarkably different from what successive Indian leaders would do from 1947 onwards. Whatever is good for the goose has to be good for the gander. In national interest one will go to the extent of shaking hands even with the devil. This is the golden rule governing our imperfect world. Subhas Chandra Bose wasn’t a United Nations messenger of peace. Gandhiji, incidentally, for whatever reasons, never received the Nobel Peace Prize. Dr Henry Kissinger did, so did Yasser Arafat.

Subhas wasn’t an intellectual or a hack pontificating sanctimoniously about how things should be. His priority was to secure freedom for Indians in circumstances that were rather extraordinary. Show me a diplomat or an intelligence officer slamming Netaji’s tactics in the name of morality, and I will splash pictures of our past prime ministers with many of the world’s worst dictators! The following specimen is an advance offering.

(Left to right) Indira Gandhi greets Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein during a state visit; Subhas Chandra Bose with Hitler in Germany.

National interest overrides all other considerations. It is for this reason that the United States is having for a friend a nation who harboured its enemy no 1. It was for this reason that the Indian armed forces gave a guard of honour to Kargil war perpetrator Pervez Musharraf. It was for this reason that India backed the Mahinda Rajapaksa-led regime even as it went about slaughtering our Tamil brethren.

For those wanting to change the world, make it a better and peaceful place, the doors of Amnesty International, the United Nations or, better still, some university in London or Washington are always open. For those engaged in statecraft with the sole, sacred purpose of taking their nation forward — even at the cost of others — there is only but one yardstick: My nation always comes first.

Let’s get a little specific here. In a letter written to Nehru in 1939, Bose outlined that “foreign policy is a realistic affair to be determined largely from the point of view of nation’s self-interest...frothy sentiments and pious platitudes do not make a foreign policy”.

A German once pointed out to me that before he joined the Axis, Bose had opposed Nehru’s idea that the European Jews could be given sanctuary in India. I submitted that most Indians of that time couldn’t think of anything else except their own emancipation. On a personal level, Bose was as much humane and enlightened as any other Cambridge alumni like him. Between 1933 and 1939, for example, he had for friends Kitty and Alex, a sensitive, newly married Jewish couple in Berlin.

The couple went to the US and from her Massachusetts home in 1965, Kitty Kurti wrote a tribute for “Netaji”. She reminisced that Bose “did not attempt to hide” from her his deep contempt for the Nazis. In the same vein, he cited India’s exploitation by British imperialism and explained why he had to do business with the Nazis. “It is dreadful but it must be done. …India must gain her independence, cost what it may,” he told the couple after a meeting with Hermann Göring.

When the first gas chamber went into operation, Bose — completely unaware of its existence — was in southeast Asia. The allies knew, but kept mum till about the end of the war. There will be time to get into the question of wars and war crimes — of heart-rending accounts of torture and death brought upon the INA men by the colonial British (of them, innumerable were good people) and their Indian collaborators — Winston Churchill causing millions of Indians to starve to death.

But it would be suffice to state here that there is sufficient data on record, including the statements of Britishers who ran India prior to 1947, to demonstrate that Bose’s attempt to end the British Raj in India with the help of Axis powers did lead to a degree of success, which had hitherto eluded the freedom fighters treading the path of ahimsa.

The bottom line is that India’s larger, long-term interest mattered foremost to Bose. If I may say so, also to Nehru, the prime minister. His idea about bringing European Jews to poverty-stricken India was airy, unworkable and only good for grabbing headlines.

So long as Nehru and his family ruled India subsequently, I told the German, Israel was not even allowed to open its embassy in New Delhi.

#NehruSnooped: So what if Subhas Chandra Bose had ties with Nazis?

 

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I spit on these Congress supporters. If you want see who are the anti nationals in India, take a close, hard look at these scumbags who have been consoldiating their power and welath in India since Independence. We f-king Indians better wake up and start embracing the facts....

 

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Subhro Niyogi,TNN | May 10, 2015, 03.39 AM IST
Declassification of Netaji files country's duty: Modi - The Times of India

KOLKATA: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday told members of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose's family that it was the country's responsibility to resolve the mystery around his disappearance.

Modi met Netaji's kin for half an hour at Raj Bhavan on Saturday.

When they reiterated the demand for declassification of secret files on Netaji, the PM said: "Aap ise desh ki maang mat kahiye. Yeh desh ka kartavya hai (Don't call it a people's demand, it is the nation's duty)". The meeting was arranged at the eleventh hour despite Modi's packed schedule.

Modi invited all members of the Netaji family to Delhi to discuss the issues, including declassification of files. "We have to get together, work on the issues and take them forward," Modi said.

This is the most significant and unambiguous statement that any Prime Minister has made on declassification. Bose family members as well as political analysts feel it's a watershed statement that clearly signals Modi's intent to remove the 70-year-old shroud over what happened to Netaji after August 18, 1945. While he was reported to have died in an alleged plane crash off Taihoku, many discrepancies in 'eyewitness' statements, absence of any record of a plane crash in Taiwan on that date and the Nehru government's spying on Netaji's kin has led to many rejecting the crash theory.

"Prime Minister Modi gave us a patient hearing. When we told him that the people of this country deserve to know the truth about Netaji, he told us that it was the nation's responsibility to do so. He wants to meet the entire family in Delhi and deliberate these issues, including the most pressing one on declassification. We have told him that not just us, even Netaji researchers and investigative journalists who tried to get to the truth should be involved in the exercise because Netaji belongs to the entire nation and not just the family," Netaji's grandnephew Chandra Bose said.

Significantly, the meeting comes within a month of the PM meeting Chandra's brother Surya in Berlin on April 14. On that occasion too, Surya had pressed for declassification of files and received an assurance that Modi would personally look into the matter. "Please keep your word," a visibly moved Chitra Ghosh, Netaji's niece and Sarat Bose's daughter told the PM. "Please give me your blessing," Modi said in return.

The other family members present included grandnephews Samiran, Somnath, Supriyo and Chitrapriya Bose. The interaction was organized by another Netaji grandnephew who lives in Delhi and is close to BJP. "We wanted to meet the PM to follow up on the discussion he had with Surya on April 14. Just like this, the opportunity came out of the blue and we grabbed it. We have urged the PM to release the classified files on Netaji. He was extremely positive," said Chandra, who believes Modi would not have made time for the family unless he was extremely serious about the issue.

 

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Declassify Netaji Files, Demands Legal Aid Forum -The New Indian Express
24th May 2015

HYDERABAD: May 23: The All India Legal Aid Forum on Saturday demanded declassification of all files relating to the mysterious disappearance of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, Jan Sangh leader Dr Shyama Prasad Mukherjee and former PM Lal Bahadur Shastri. The forum is travelling across the country to garner support for declassification of the files. Speaking at a press conference here, general secretary of the forum, Joydeep Mukherjee, a Supreme Court advocate, said they would take out a ‘Chalo Dilli’ rally from Netaji’s Indian National Army war memorial at Moirang in Manipur in June.

“Netaji’s alleged plane crash death of August 18, 1945 has been busted with disclosure of several documents. Even the Shahnawaz Commission report and GD Khosla report were rejected by Parliament. Netaji’s status continues to be that of a war criminal even today. The truth behind the nation’s hero has to come out,” demanded Mukherjee.

Joydeep Mukherjee
The forum urged the government to send letters to all former Soviet countries to declassify every available document on Netaji. “There is clear cut evidence that Netaji took shelter in Russia after August 18, 1945. Still, our government is not making any official request to Russia for disclosing top secret files of KGB,” he added.

The forum members also demanded that files pertaining to the INA treasure, amounting to Rs 72 crore in 1945, must be disclosed. They also wanted declassification of a book written by historian Pratul Gupta on the history of INA and Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose. “It was because of the Congress and Communists that Netaji could not return to India. There was no relationship between India and Russia between 1947-53. USSR’s destalinisation started in 1954. Pandit Nehru visited the USSR in 1955 and Indo-Soviet treaty was signed in 1956,” pointed out Mukherjee.

According to him, some sources have stated that India’s relationship with 18 countries would be affected if the 41 top secret Netaji files were declassified. “We need to know the truth. The youth of today and tomorrow should learn about Netaji. He is the property of the nation and this government, being a non-Congress one, should expose all those behind the last seven decades of mystery,” he said.

 

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PM Modi has called it nation's 'responsibility' to declassify Netaji's files: Chandra Bose | Zee News

Sunday, May 24, 2015 - 19:52

Kolkata: The grand nephew of freedom fighter Subhash Chandra Bose, Chandra Kumar Bose, on Sunday said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has called it the nation's 'responsibility' to declassify the files related to Netaji.


Chandra Bose also said that the Prime Minister, in a meeting with his elder brother Surya Bose in Berlin, had assured that he would personally ensure that Netaji's files are declassified.

"My elder brother Surya Bose had met (Prime Minister) Modiji in Berlin. This was on the 13th of April and he had assured us that he would personally intervene into the matter. Members of the Bose family met the Prime Minister again on the 9th of this month at Kolkata. When I told him that the people of India demand to know what had happened to Subhash Chandra Bose after the 18th of August, 1945, (Prime Minister) Modiji had told me to call it the nation's responsibility and not the nation's demand to disclose the truth," he told ANI here.

Chandra Bose further said that there was a disconnect in the RTI replies that the Bose family had been receiving from the bureaucracy and the political leadership.

"There is a disconnect in the RTI replies that we are getting from the bureaucracy, from the PMO office, from the External Affairs Ministry. So, what we would like to know is whether the bureaucracy is consulting the political leadership because this issue is very serious. It cannot just be handled by the bureaucracy. It is a must that the bureaucracy consults the Prime Minister of India and other senior Cabinet Ministers before arriving at a conclusion. So, we would like the bureaucracy to review the decisions that they have taken and to consult the Prime Minister and his Cabinet colleagues before responding to any RTI reply," said Bose.

"My brother Surya Bose did mention to (Prime Minister) Narendra Modi on the 13th of April at Berlin that the RTI reply that was received from the (former) UPA government and the RTI reply received from the NDA Government did not have much of a difference. The Prime Minister was surprised to note that a similar reply has come from his government also and, therefore, he said that he will personally intervene into the matter. So, it is a request to the Prime Minister of India that he ensures that his government seriously considers the issue because I don't think it is anymore optional for the government. It is the people's demand and the government has been elected by the people of this nation. So, if it is the people's demand then the government must positively respond to the people's demand of declassification of all files pertaining to Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose," he added.

Earlier, two recently declassified Information Bureau files had revealed that the Jawaharlal Nehru-led government had order surveillance on Netaji's kin between 1948 and 1968. The files reveal that the IB had resumed British-era surveillance on the two Bose family homes in Calcutta at Woodburn Park and Elgin Road.

 

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Netaji kin demands declassification of secret files on him | Zee News

Jaipur: Demanding declassification of the secret files on Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, his great granddaughter on Monday said the family members were not satisfied with the assurance from the Prime Minister that the mystery around the disappearance of Bose will be resolved.

Rajashree Choudhury, Netaji's great granddaughter who was in the city, said that she and other family members were seeking people's support and creating pressure on the government to demand declassification of the files with PMO and state governments.

"PM's mere assurance for resolving the mystery is not satisfactory, we want concrete steps and not just assurance.

"It will be in the interest of the nation if the files are declassified at the earliest," Choudhury told reporters here.

She claimed Modi had in a meeting some time ago assured the family members that step would be taken to resolve the mystery.

In April this year, grand nephew of Bose had met Prime Minister Narendra Modi and raised the issue of declassification of all secret files related to the freedom fighter amid a row over snooping on the leader's close relatives.

In an RTI reply, the Prime Minister's Office has refused to declassify secret files relating to Netaji arguing that the "disclosure would prejudicially affect relations with foreign countries."

In May, the Prime Minister had told members of Bose's family in Kolkata that it was the country's responsibility to resolve the mystery around his disappearance.

PTI

 

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Can't disclose if any KGB records on Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose were searched: Govt | Zee News

New Delhi: The Centre has refused to divulge whether declassified archives of the erstwhile Soviet spy agency KGB were ever searched for any information on Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose's alleged death in a plane crash 70 years ago.

The denial comes despite repeated promises by the NDA government about disclosure of Netaji files.

The External Affairs Ministry has refused to provide any information on the action taken on a 19-year-old proposal from its Joint Secretary (East Europe) R L Narayan, who had suggested requesting the Russian authorities to search KGB archives and inform India "if there is any evidence of Netaji's stay in the Soviet Union".

Narayan's note, written on January 12, 1996, was referred to Secretary, Ministry of External Affairs. The then External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee had written a noting on it, asking the Secretary and Narayan to discuss the proposal "urgently" on January 14, 1996.

The Ministry first responded, saying the information was not available in a particular division. Later, when the RTI application was again filed with same queries, the Ministry said "Under section 8(1)(a) of the RTI Act 2005, the information on the subject cannot be disclosed."

The clause of the Right to Information law cited by the CPIO and Under Secretary (East Asia) Bayyapu Sandeep Kumar allows the government to withhold information the disclosure of which would prejudicially affect the sovereignty and integrity of India, the security, strategic, scientific or economic interests of the State, relation with foreign State or lead to incitement of an offence.

Ironically, the note itself tagged as "secret" is widely available on the internet. However, the action taken on the proposal remains a mystery.

The denial of information by the Ministry comes in the backdrop of a recent notice issued by the Central Information Commission to Prime Minister's Office on the issue of declassification of files related to mysterious disappearance of Netaji. The transparency panel will hear a petition filed in a separate case on the disclosure of the files on August 26.

In his note, Narayan had said that from time to time various articles have appeared in the Soviet/Russian press insinuating, though without actual proof, that Netaji in fact stayed/was incarcerated in the Soviet Union after 1945 when he went missing in an alleged plane crash.

"In January 1992, we had received a disclaimer from the Russian Foreign Ministry to the effect that 'according to the data in the Central and Republican Archives, no information whatsoever is available on the stay of the former President of the Indian National Congress Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, in the Soviet Union in 1945 and thereafter," the note said.

It said a group of scholars from India had visited Moscow in 1995 to research this issue.

"Again no proof of Netaji's stay in the Soviet Union was adduced, it was mentioned that a number of personalities whom the team met 'had suggestive words to ventilate', and that 'the people of this country and all over the globe are very much interested to know about the cloud that had been created around Netaji concerning Russia," it said.

Narayan said there are three kinds of archives which may be of relevance- papers relating to the Stalinist period (KGB archives), which are kept separately and were not accessed till 1996 when the note was written, by foreign and even Russian scholars, and papers related to post-Stalinist period, which he said fall in two categories-- Government and Politburo--that are kept separately.

According to Narayan, the Russian Foreign Ministry Note Verbale suggested that their disclaimers about Netaji may be based essentially on perusal of the archives of post-Stalinist period (post-1953).

Narayan had suggested that while it would be unrealistic for India to expect that Russian authorities would allow Indian scholars to access KGB archives, "what we can do is to request the Russian authorities to conduct a search into these archives and let us know if there is any evidence of Netaji's stay in the Soviet Union".

The appellant had sought a copy of Narayan's note, action taken on it, and file notings, besides Netaji files destroyed by the MEA.

He had also asked for a complete list of files on Bose with MEA which have been sent to the National Archives and communications exchanged between the Prime Minister's Office and the then India Ambassador to Russia S Radhakrishnan on Subhas Chandra Bose or Azad Hind Fauj.

 

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PMO refuses to disclose Bose files; CIC reserves order

The Prime Minister's Office has told the Central Information Commission that it cannot declassify files related to freedom fighter Subhas Chandra Bose as it will adversely affect relations with foreign countries.

During the hearing before the CIC yesterday, the PMO admitted that it has files related to Bose but did not give any specifics and submitted that they cannot be declassified keeping in mind the relations with foreign countries.

The top office cited section 8(1)(a) which allows the government to withhold information, disclosure of which would prejudicially affect the sovereignty and integrity of India, the security, strategic, scientific or economic interests of the State, relation with foreign State or lead to incitement of an offence.

RTI activist Subhash Agrawal, who had sought declassification of documents pertaining to Bose, made a strong plea before the Commission citing section 8(2) of the RTI Act which allows exempted records to be disclosed if public interest in disclosure outweighs the harm to the protected interests.

"Notwithstanding anything in the Official Secrets Act, 1923 nor any of the exemptions permissible in accordance with sub-section (1), a public authority may allow access to information, if public interest in disclosure outweighs the harm to the protected interests," the Act says.

Agrawal said foreign relations cannot be affected as Bose allegedly went missing 70 years ago.

Chief Information Commissioner Vijai Sharma has reserved his order in the matter.
Agrawal urged the CIC to seek written submission on rejection of declassification plea from the PMO but it was turned down by Sharma.

Section 8(3) of the RTI Act also allows disclosure of information withheld under Section 8(1), as is the present case, if the information related to any event which happened 20 years before the request it made.

"Subject to the provisions of clauses (a), (c) and (i) of sub-section (1), any information relating to any occurrence, event or matter which has taken place, occurred or happened twenty years before the date on which any request is made under secton 6 shall be provided to any person making a request under that section:

"Provided that where any question arises as to the date from which the said period of twenty years has to be computed, the decision of the Central Government shall be final, subject to the usual appeals provided for in this Act," the Act says.

 

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Subhas Chandra Bose family approaches UK on declassifying Netaji files | Zee News
Last Updated: Sunday, August 30, 2015 - 14:01

Berlin: Subhas Chandra Bose's family, still awaiting a response from Prime Minister Narendra Modi over declassifying files on the "mystery" surrounding Netaji, has approached the UK asserting it has the relevant documents on him.


Netaji's grandnephew Surya Kumar Bose, who had met Modi on the issue during his visit here in April, said he had written a letter to him days after the meeting but is yet to receive any response.

Asked about Modi government's approach on the issue, Surya said he was hopeful on securing "closure" to the "mystery" over the issue.

"I am hopeful because I think Modi has the guts to do it and I have told him quite frankly that we are ready to face whatever comes out, whether it is positive or negative or whatever it is. We have to face the music. Because we have been asking for it," he said.

The family has approached the UK government, asserting that it has classified files on him besides Japan and Russia.

"My sister who has a base in London has approached the British government to declassify the files. They have admitted that they have files. But they have to go through them in detail. They have asked for more time. So that means they have files on Subhash Bose which are classified," Surya told PTI here.

Bose said the issue is being taken up with governments of Japan and America and that the family was determined to get to the bottom of it notwithstanding whatever comes out of the declassification of the files.

Surya claimed that governments of Russia, Japan and the United States have information about Netaji and that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) had their files open on him till 1985.

"I do not think opening up of those files will create issues with any present government. You cannot blame the present government for what had happened in 1945-46," he said.

Surya said it was "high time" the mystery surrounding Bose is brought to a close.

Asked when the family approached the British authorities, he did not specify but indicated it was approached recently.

He said the Indian government must request the foreign governments to share the details about Bose with it.

Toeing the line adopted by the previous UPA government, Prime Minister Modi's Office in February had refused to declassify the files relating to Bose.

The PMO on Wednesday had told the Central Information Commission that it cannot declassify files related to Bose as it will adversely affect relations with foreign countries.

The fate of the freedom fighter, who led the Indian National Army (INA), is not known after his plane crashed in Taiwan in 1945.

PTI

 

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West Bengal's Netaji files to be made public - The Hindu

"We are doing this for the sake of transparency and accountability", says Mamata.
Files pertaining to Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose in the State government's custody, will be put in the public domain, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee announced on Friday.

At a press meet at the Secretariat at Nabanna, she said, "We are doing this for the sake of transparency and accountability.. people should know.”

" He [SubhasChandra Bose] lived here, engaged in politics from here, launched his struggles from here, yet we do not know what happened to him after he left.. it is a mystery ", Ms Banerjee said adding that she too did not know that volumes of files were lying locked all this while in the city.

These files would now be readied and kept in the Police Archives for all to see. It was up to the media to unravel the truth. "People must know the truth."

The move was initiated after checking all angles, including those of the country's security, the Chief Minister said..

 

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West Bengal's Netaji files to be made public - The Hindu

"We are doing this for the sake of transparency and accountability", says Mamata.
Files pertaining to Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose in the State government's custody, will be put in the public domain, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee announced on Friday.

At a press meet at the Secretariat at Nabanna, she said, "We are doing this for the sake of transparency and accountability.. people should know.”

" He [SubhasChandra Bose] lived here, engaged in politics from here, launched his struggles from here, yet we do not know what happened to him after he left.. it is a mystery ", Ms Banerjee said adding that she too did not know that volumes of files were lying locked all this while in the city.

These files would now be readied and kept in the Police Archives for all to see. It was up to the media to unravel the truth. "People must know the truth."

The move was initiated after checking all angles, including those of the country's security, the Chief Minister said..

Excellent!

 

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Excellent!

its about time

 

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@Rain Man @Mike_Brando mamta releasing some files what's happening?

@Rain Man @Mike_Brando mamta releasing some files what's happening?