West Bengal Government to declassify 64 Netaji Files on Sept 18

Kolkata, Sep 11: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday announced her government’s decision to declassify 64 files on freedom fighter Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, saying the mystery surrounding his disappearance needs to be put at rest.

“Still the mystery surrounding Netaji’s disappearance continues to be unsolved. So whatever files we have, we will declassify them which may help in unravelling the mystery.

“From next Friday (September 18), all the 64 files (1937-1947) that we have will be open for public. They will be kept at the city police archive,” Banerjee told mediapersons at the state secretariat. The move should create pressure on the Centre to declassify at least 100 such files, which are in its possession.