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Narendra Modi assured declassification of files: Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose kin

There was action in Kolkata and reaction from Berlin.

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Chandra Bose (L), grand-nephew of Subhas Chandra Bose, and other relatives take part in a rally in Kolkata on Tuesday, demanding the de-classification of the Netaji files.
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There was action in Kolkata and reaction from Berlin.

As some members of Subhas Chandra Bose's family took to the streets in Kolkata, demanding declassification of all secret files concerning Netaji, the leader's grand nephew, Surya Bose, brought some good news.
Surya, who met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Berlin, said the latter had assured him to look into the surveillance issue and declassification of files.

"He said he will try his best to open them up because he himself hasn't yet seen any of those files. So, he cannot judge what the contents are like, what they could be. So, it was a very honest answer, I must say," Surya said.
Two recently declassified IB files had revealed that the government led by former prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru had ordered surveillance on Netaji's kin between 1948 and 1968. The files reveal that the IB had resumed British-era surveillance on the two Bose family homes in Calcutta, now Kolkata.

In Kolkata, the snoopgate united a large section of the hitherto-fragmented branches of the extended Netaji family, many of whom took part in a rally on Tuesday, demanding declassification of the files.

They had another demand as well: the declassification of files with the West Bengal government.

"As many as 64 files are with the state government and they have not been classified. We have written to the state government twice, but it has fallen on deaf ears," said D N Ghosh, Netaji's grandson.

Chandra Kumar Bose, grandnephew of Netaji, even demanded chief minister Mamata Banerjee's resignation at the rally.

The anti-state government stance of some of the kin explains why the rally failed to unite the more visible and well-known Netaji descendants.

Sugoto Bose, Harvard University professor, a Trinamool Congress Member of Parliament and grand nephew of Netaji, wasn't seen at Tuesday's rally.

Also missing in action was his mother and former Trinamool MP Krishna Bose, married to Sisir Bose, who is the son of Netaji's elder brother Sarat Bose.

The mother-son duo had, on Friday, held an impromptu press conference on the issue, blaming Prafulla Ghosh and Bidhan Chandra Roy, Congress chief minsters of post-independent Bengal. They said the two former chief ministers were in cahoot with Nehru over snooping on the family.

—With inputs from ANI.

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