Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday declassified 100 files on iconic freedom fighter Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, who went on to raise an army to fight the British and whose death in an aircrash continues to be a mystery even after seven decades. Modi also launched a webportal netajipapers.gov.in to release digital version of 100 files. (PTI) -
Narendra Modi released digital copies of 100 files at the National Archives of India following the government's decision to declassify files on Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose. The files were released on the birth anniversary of Bose, who was more popularly addressed with the honorific Netaji. (PTI)
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Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose's family members, some of whom where present during the declassification, were overwhelmed by the decision calling it a "great day for the entire nation." (PTI)
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Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, one of the leading lights of the Indian freedom struggle, set up the Indian National Army (INA) during World War II to take on the British Indian Army. (PTI)
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A former Congress president and once a close associate of Mahatma Gandhi, Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose's reported death in a plane crash in Formosa, now Taiwan, in 1945 has remained a mystery. The bespectacled freedom fighter was born on January 23, 1897 in Cuttack, Odisha. (PTI)
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The National Archives received 990 declassified files pertaining to the Indian National Army (INA) from the defence ministry in 1997. "Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose must be given the title 'Leader of the Nation'. He deserves that honour," West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee tweeted minutes after Modi declassified a set of files. (PTI)
The Mamata Banerjee government on September 18, 2015 put in public domain 64 files running into 12,744 pages in the presence of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose's family members, who have been campaigning for the declassification of the files to unravel the mystery surrounding his sudden disappearance over 70 years ago. (PTI) -
The release of the Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose files "will meet the long-standing public demand" and "will also facilitate scholars to carry out further research on Netaji", a culture ministry statement has said. (PTI)
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10. PM Narendra Modi assets do not include any agricultural land, nor any commercial real estate property. Regarding assets of his wife Jashodaben, the disclosure states 'not known'.(PTI)
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