"The Centre as well as the West Bengal government should declassify all secret Netaji files to unravel the truth about mysterious disappearance of the great leader in the interest of national cause and restoration of national honour," Justice (Retd) Asok Kumar Ganguly said here.
Justifying the demand as "valid, fair and legitimate," Ganguly said "It is our right demand to unravel the truth about alleged disappearance of the great national hero."
"There must be something wrong which may have compelled successive governments at the Centre to hide the truth about Netaji's mysterious disappearance.
Hope the present government at the Centre will take a strong initiative for declassification of the secret Netaji files and make public the Justice Mukherjee Commission of Inquiry report," he said.
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Alleging continuous surveillance on the Bose family, Ganguly said, "Unfortunately many members of the Bose family were under constant surveillance after the mysterious disappearance of Netaji. This should not have been done in a democracy where citizens have fundamental and human rights."
The forum, which had filed an RTI application with the Mamata Banerjee government seeking disclosure of its contents, has received no reply even though the mandatory 30-day responding period had expired, Bose said.
He further said that some of those files contain correspondence between former West Bengal Chief Minister Dr Bidhan Chandra Ray and former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru on the whereabouts of Netaji.