Kolkata : Family members of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose will meet Prime Minster Narendra Modi on May 17 and press for the declassification of secret files on Netaji lying with the central and state governments.
“We had written to the prime minister requesting for time to discuss the issue. A couple of days back we received a letter from the PMO inviting us on May 17,” Netaji’s grandnephew Chandra Kumar Bose told PTI on Monday.
Besides demanding the declassification of the secret files, they will also request the prime minister to form a Special Investigative Team to look into the content of the secret files once they are declassified, Bose stated.
“We will request the PM to constitute an SIT with officials from the PMO, External Affairs Ministry, Intelligence Bureau (IB), a senior journalist and a Netaji-researcher as members of the committee to look into the files,” Bose said.
“So far, all the committees formed by the government to probe Netaji’s disappearance were bureaucratic panels and none of them could deliver a fruitful conclusion. We believe that there should be the presence of non-bureaucratic persons in the panel,” he said.
