The Centre will declassify its secret files on Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose next year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said today, after hosting 35 members of the leader's family at his 7 Race Course Road residence.
The process, PM Modi said, will begin on January 23, the 118th birth anniversary of the leader whose disappearance 70 years ago still remains a mystery.
At the meeting with Netaji's family, the PM said, "History cannot be written correctly if information on Netaji is not released."
The family says secret files on Netaji exist in Russia, Japan, China, America, UK, Japan, Singapore and Malaysia and has requested the Prime Minister to write to these countries for their declassification.
The home ministry is already working on declassification of files, the PM said, adding that on January 23, the first set of files that are being examined, will be declassified.
"Successive governments have suppressed all documents and it is the call of the nation that the documents be revealed," Netaji's grand-nephew Chandra Kumar Bose had told NDTV ahead of the meeting.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a meeting with the family members of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose in New Delhi on Wednesday. Union ministers Rajnath Singh and Sushma Swaraj are also seen. (Press Trust of India photo)
The Prime Minister had announced the family's visit in his monthly radio address 'Mann Ki Baat' on September 20, describing it as a "momentous occasion".
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