New Delhi: Accepting long-pending demands of family members of Subhas Chandra Bose, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday announced that the government would declassifying secret files related to Netaji and hoped that the “historic” decision would finally lift the veil over his mysterious disappearance.
Today actually is the independence day for India as documents on Netaji will be declassified,” said Netaji’s great grand nephew Chandra Kumar Bose, who was among 35 members of Bose’s family who met Modi at his residence this evening.
It is the will of PM, the work (declassification) will be done,” he said about Modi’s promise to start unveiling the files from January 23 next year. He noted that the earlier governments tended to “hide” these files whereas Modi had decided to make them public.
He (Modi) hugged me and played with me by pulling my ears while clicking photos,” said the class VI student. The youngest great grand nephew of Netaji, Nawal Bose said “everything we expected from the meeting (with PM) was accepted and granted.
Terming Modi as a very “direct and straight forward” leader, Nawal said “he is doing the utmost for declassification of files on Netaji… I have utmost faith in his assurance. During the meeting with PM, the oldest members of the family expressed their views after which Modi addressed them.
Bureau Report
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