Welcoming the release of cabinet papers on Netaji and allied issues from 1938 to 1947, his family and researchers today said the West Bengal government might have some more secret files in its possession, a contention denied by the Kolkata Police.
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The files will be available to general society at the state chronicles, state library and the Calcutta Information Center.
“We just got a mail from the Prime Minister’s Office, saying that a meeting has been confirmed for October 14 at 5 pm at his residence on the 7, Race Course Road”, Netaji’s grand nephew, Chandra Bose told PTI.
64 Netaji files were made public by the West Bengal government on September 18, but whether these files will finally unravel the mystery behind the death of Subhash Chandra Bose, remains to be seen. Total 401 cabinet files of the pre-independence era were declassified. “This is our way of doing it. These documents contain history and people have the right to know”, she said.
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She said: We hope the stand taken by our government regarding declassification of files will be adopted by other governments also. Banerjee, who left for Delhi later in the day, said she will hand over a CD of the files each to President Pranab Mukherjee, Union Home minister Rajnath Singh and Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan. We started working on digitising these files in 2013.
