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Centre should declassify Netaji files: Mamata Banerjee

She said the state would also digitise files of Cabinet decisions taken between 1937-47

Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, Mamata Banerjee
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee & Kolkata Police Commissioner Surajit Purkayastha at the release of the confidential files on Netaji at Kolkata Police Museum in Kolkata. Photo: PTI
Press Trust of India Kolkata
Last Updated : Sep 22 2015 | 2:24 PM IST
Ruing that there hasn't been a proper evaluation of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose's "immense contribution", Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today said the Centre should follow the state government's decision on declassification of files related to the freedom fighter.

"We have declassified 64 Netaji files. The immense contributions of Netaji has not been evaluated properly. We feel that the Centre should follow us and declassify the files," Banerjee said in the state Assembly.

She said the state would also digitise files of Cabinet decisions taken between 1937-47.



The state government had declassified 64 Netaji files on Friday last.

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First Published: Sep 22 2015 | 2:02 PM IST

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