Freedom fighter Subhas Chandra Bose's grandnephew, Chandra Kumar Bose, on Tuesday said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi will create 'history' by declassifying Netaji's files as
well as rectifying the 'distorted' records put forward by the UPA Government.
Chandra Kumar Bose said that the Prime Minister, in a meeting with his elder brother Surya Bose in Berlin, assured that he will personally ensure that Netaji's files are declassified.
"My elder brother Surya Bose met the Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Berlin and assured him that he will personally intervene into Netaji files issue. Let us give some more time to the government to arrive at a decision. We are firm that it is a people's demand and that Prime Minister Modi would create history by declassifying the files but also rectifying the distorted history put forward by the UPA Government," Chandra Kumar Bose told ANI here.
Chandra Kumar Bose further said that the declassification of the files will also result in the 'snooping' angle being brought into the public domain.
"I don't think the Govt has the right to reject a demand from the people of this country... Of course, certain personalities of that era will be exposed. There was a conspiracy... The time has come for the
people of India to know the truth about liberator of India," he added.
Talking about the 'snooping' issue, Chandra Kumar said that former prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru had instructed then foreign secretary Subimal Dutt to advise the Indian Ambassador in Japan to keep
surveillance on his father, Amiya Nath Bose, during his visit to Japan.
"The Government of India had ordered surveillance on my father Amiya Nath Bose. When Amiya Nath Bose went to Japan in 1957, Nehru had instructed Subimal Dutt, the foreign secretary back then, to advise the Indian ambassador in Japan to keep surveillance on Amiya Nath Bose during his visit," he said.
Earlier, two recently declassified Information Bureau files had revealed that the 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.
