Netaji row: Selective leaks and half truths congress alleged

Janjivan Bureau
New Delhi: Congress alleged the BJP government to malign national icons who reshaped India’s destiny, rewrote its history and made it a great nation today. Party attack on Narendra Modi government for “sinister propaganda of selective leaks and half truths” behind reports that the Jawaharlal Nehru government had snooped on Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose’s family members even as it demanded that the government also declassify the files on RSS.
Congress spokesperson Abhishek Singhvi demanded that the Prime Minister and the Home Minister must explain why only ‘notings on file’ of the two declassified files have been released while withholding the ‘correspondence portion’ of the same.
“Does the correspondence portion contain some inconvenient truth that the Prime Minister’s Office has chosen to withhold?” he added.
Singhvi also alleged that since the Intelligence Bureau (IB) reports directly to the Home Minister, the ruling party was “attempting to malign the great Home Ministers between 1948 to 1968, including Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel and Lal Bahadur Shastri”.
Congress’s reaction came in the wake of reports that, between 1948 and 1968, Netaji Bose’s family was spied upon in Calcutta by IB. Much of the period in question corresponds to Nehru’s tenure as Prime Minister.
“Why is BJP trying to malign the great Home Ministers and veteran freedom fighters like Vallabhbhai Patel, C Rajagopalachari, Lal Bahadur Shastri, Govind Ballabh Pant, Gulzarilal Nanda and others?” he said.