Janjivan Bureau
Berlin:Prime Minister Narendra Modi has given an assurence to grandnephew of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Surya Kumar Bose truth will come out. Netaji grandnephew has asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to declassify all secret files on the iconic freedom fighter against the backdrop of a controversy that successive Congress governments had spied on Bose’s family for two decades.
Netaji’s grandnephew met Modi, currently on an official visit to Germany, after attending a reception hosted in the Prime Minister’s honour by the Indian envoy.
Surya Kumar Bose also told the media that most members of the Bose family did not believe the freedom fighter had died in a plane crash in Taipei in 1945, days after Japan surrendered in World War II.
“I think as far as declassification (of the files) is concerned, to the best of my knowledge, at the moment I think the whole family is united,” Surya Bose said.
“But there are differences of opinion as far as the plane crash theory is concerned. But the majority of the family as of now do not believe in it,” he said.
“Because that is based on what is available in the public domain, what we have seen, what the three commissions of inquiries have produced and what we have heard from reliable source,” said Surya Bose, a businessman who is now president of the Indo-German Association in Hamburg.
