The files contain cabinet notes on the Quit India Movement, the Bengal starvation and the Great Calcutta Killings. “I am, therefore, not aware of their content, especially not of any information about his death”.
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Ms Banerjee today again reiterated her request that the Centre should follow the state government’s decision and declassify files related to the freedom fighter.
Welcoming the release of cabinet papers on Netaji and allied issues from 1938 to 1947, his family and researchers on Monday said the West Bengal government might have some more secret files in its possession, a contention denied by the Kolkata police. You need to maintain transparency by making documents public which we are doing.
Banerjee would also be meeting Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday. That is why we declassified files.
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Banerjee also took a jibe at the Narendra Modi government’s “Digital India” initiative and said all the state government files post independence will be digitized in a phased manner. “They contain history and people have right to know”, she added. While the hard copies of the Netaji files were placed inside the wooden and glass cabinets, ten desktops were installed inside the museum, where visitors can browse through the data of the files in digital format. The 12,744-page dossier, however, opened up new avenues about Netaji’s interactions with people, his personal life and his dreams about freeing India from the British rule.
