PM Narendra Modi
to Meet Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose's Family
Prime Minister
Narendra Modi will host the family members of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose at his
residence in New Delhi today, an event he described on Tuesday as an
"honour" for him.
The family
members are expected to seek declassification of all the files related to
Netaji whose
mysterious disappearance 70 years ago continues to be a talking
point.The Prime Minister, in his
monthly 'Mann Ki Baat' radio programme on
September 20, had said he would be receiving over 5
0 members of Netaji's family
members at his residence in October."
Over 50 members
of Subhas babu's family, from various countries, will be coming... I am happy
to
welcome them," PM Modi had said.Describing it as a momentous occasion
for him, he had said that it
would perhaps be the first time that the family
members of Netaji would be together visiting the Prime
Minister's
residence."But the bigger happiness is for me as nobody in the Prime
Minister's residence
would have got such a chance earlier as I will be getting
in October," he said.Recalling his meeting with
some members of the family
in Kolkata in May, PM Modi had said, "I got an opportunity to spend some
time with them. That day it was decided that the family of Subhas babu will
visit the Prime Minister's
residence... Last week, I got confirmation that over
50 members of Subhas babu are coming to visit the
Prime Minister's
residence."
The family
members are expected to seek declassification of Netaji files in possession of
the Centre as the
West Bengal government has already released 64 such
files.Bose's grandnephew Chandra Bose has said
that his family will appeal to
PM Modi to write to countries including Russia, Japan, China, America, UK,
Japan, Singapore and Malaysia to declassify all Netaji files lying with
them."Netaji was in touch with
people in all these countries. They all
have classified files relating to him. We want to take this movement
of
declassification to the global level to get all the clues," he had said.
"Our main
focus, however, would be on declassification of all Netaji files held by the
government of India. If we do not have our own files declassified, then how can
we ask
other nations to do it?" Abhijit Ray, Netaji's another
grand-nephew, had said.
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