Last month, Netaji's family has approached governments in UK, Japan and Russia, requesting it to declassify document on Netaji.
Sixty four secret files on Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose will be made public by the West Bengal government next Friday, September 18. Chief minister Mamata Banerjee has said there is nothing in the files that could jeopardise India's national security and therefore no reason to keep them secret.
Members of the freedom movement leader's family who have been demanding declassification of all files on Netaji have welcomed the move and are hoping the BJP-led NDA government will now be under pressure to release its files.
"What files the Centre has and what it will do with them is its business," said Ms Banerjee. "This is the decision of the West Bengal government alone. There is no connection with the Centre. But Kolkata was Netaji's area of operation. He lived and worked here. Kolkata is the main gateway. We have opened the gates."
The files will be put on display at the Kolkata Police Museum.
Ms Krishna Bose, chairperson of the Netaji Research Bureau in Kolkata that has been documenting Netaji's life for years, said, "I have personally thanked Mamata Banerjee for this decision. Since the files were not being revealed, only speculation and rumours were going on."
Earlier, in a response to the Central Information Commission, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government had said dfying the files related to Netaji will adversely affect relations with foreign countries.
Netaji's grandnephew Mr Chandra Bose said, "Now it is for the Central government to take the cue from the West Bengal and declassify the 130 files held by the Centre."
In April this year, declassified files revealed that the Intelligence Bureau kept relatives of Netaji under close surveillance between 1948 and 1968.
Netaji's death has been one of the most enduring mysteries in India's history and has been debated for decades. A section of researchers, including some members of the Netaji's family, have long held that the iconic leader didn't actually die in a plane crash in August 1945 at Taipei.