West Bengal government to declassify 64 files relating to Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose on September 18

With growing demands for the release of all secret files related to freedom fighter Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, Mamata Banerjee government on Friday said that 64 files on Bose will be made public on September 18 in Kolkata museum.

She has also said that the government will undertake the process of digitization of all files from 1937 to 1947.

Netaji's grand nephew has welcomed the move and has said that the Centre should take a cue from this move and release all 135 files with the government.

"I would like to congratulate the CM of West Bengal for this move taken today. We hope that the NDA government take a cue from this and release the 135 files that is there with the Centre," Chandra Bose said.

It's time that the nation gets to know about the true story behind Netaji. We would like to ask the West Bengal government to form a team which will include members of the Bose family scrutinize the files. The British government too has said that they have files on Netaji...they have asked for more time..I would request PM Narendra Modi to request governments of England and Russia to release the documents," he added.

The Prime Minister's Office in August told the Central Information Commission that it cannot declassify files related to Bose as it will adversely affect relations with foreign countries.

During the hearing before the CIC, the PMO admitted that it has files related to Bose but did not give any specifics and submitted that they cannot be declassified keeping in mind the relations with foreign countries.