After a big wait, Mamata Banerjee government has finally chose to make the Netaji files public.
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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday announced a bonanza for state government employees–a new pay commission, an increase of 10 percentage points in the dearness allowance, and freedom to use their leave travel concession on nearby foreign destinations, among other things.
“A total of 64 files are with us”. There may be one or two more files also which would also be put in the public domain. We believed all such files on Netaji were with the central government.
The opening of the files is likely to shed some light on whether Netaji met his end in a plane crash over Taiwan in 1945. Everybody wants to know what happened to Netaji. Mr Mitra a former industry representative said (he was with FICCI).It may be mentioned here with the Assembly elections scheduled in West Bengal next year the Trinamool Congress government is keen to catalyse industrial developmen… “It is better for you to go through the files to get the answers”.
However, its a known fact that the West Bengal government always had access to these 64 files as stated in the in the status report of the Mukherjee Commission, set up to probe the sudden disappearance of Netaji. “He was a national icon”.
Netaji’s grand nephew and convener of Open Platform Chandra Kumar Bose welcomed the decision.
In January 2014, the then BJP president Rajnath Singh had demanded during a visit to Netaji’s birthplace Cuttack this January that the UPA government make public the records.
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There was controversy over the reported snooping of Bose’s family decades ago.
