DHAKA: On the 119th birth anniversary of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, Prime Minister Narendra Modi Saturday (January 23) put in the public domain, for the first time, 100 files on the freedom fighter that have been classified till now.

PM Modi had, in his meeting with members of the Bose family in October last year, announced that the government would declassify the files relating to the leader whose disappearance 70 years ago remains a mystery.

In a tweet this morning, the Prime Minister had said, ‘Today is a special day for all Indians. Declassification of Netaji files starts today. Will go to National Archives myself for the same’. (Sic)

Twelve members of the Bose family attended the event at the National Archives of India (NAI) in Delhi where the PM made public digital copies of the files.

Two commissions of inquiry had concluded that Netaji died in a plane crash in Taipei on August 18, 1945. A third commission of inquiry and many people, including some of his relatives, have contested that theory.

‘I don't believe the air crash theory. We may not get all the answers today but I do hope that some indications will be given,’ Chandra Bose, a grand nephew of Netaji, had told NDTV earlier Saturday.

BDST: 1437 HRS, JAN 23, 2016
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