After 64 files related to Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose were declassified by the West Bengal government, pressure is on the Centre to do the same with the files in its possession. Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has also urged the Centre to go ahead demanding the truth must come out.
Four days after CNN-IBN broke the story of startling revelations on the classified Netaji files, as many as 12,744 pages, which were kept hidden from citizens for over seven decades, were finally brought out in the public domain.
The files are now on display at the Calcutta Police Museum. The state govt has also handed over digitized copies of the files to members of the Bose family in Kolkata.
"We thank the Mamata Banerjee government for declassifying the files. Now we urge the Narendra Modi ji government to declassify the other files," said Netaji's kin Chandra Bose.
While CNN-IBN revealed secret files had intelligence inputs on the possibility of Bose remaining alive after his alleged death in the 1945, the very first file disclosed shows the leader was presumed dead in the air crash. The files also confirm surveillance by successive Congress governments on Netaji's elder brother Sarat Bose and nephews Sisir and Amiya. This too was reported earlier by CNN-IBN when it disclosed an intercepted letter by the state intelligence bureau.
The twelve and a half thousand pages spread across the 64 files are believed to be just the tip of the iceberg which document decades of national and international conspiracies surrounding Netaji. With the Centre yet to declassify the critical files in its possession it's perhaps time for Bose enthusiasts to renew Netaji's war cry, Dilli Chalo, which he gave 70 years ago albeit in a very different perspective.
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