What surprises will Netaji files hold for us?

While the nation awaits the declassification of the secret Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose files on the leader’s 119th birth anniversary, chances are bleak that the hidden pages would solve his disappearance mystery.

“As a first step, the National Archives of India is placing 100 files relating to Netaji in public domain after preliminary conservation treatment and digitisation”, the release added.

After an hour or so lengthy discussion with Bose’s family unit members, he introduced the documents could be launched on 23rd of January and required towards the social networking system Facebook. Earlier, in 1997, the National Archives had received 990 declassified files concerning the Indian National Army (Azad Hind Fauj) from the Ministry of Defence.

Mr Modi had on October 14 announced that the first batch of the secret files would be declassified from January 23, the birth anniversary of Netaji, meeting the long-pending demand of Bose’s family.

It also transpires from the file that Japanese army officers probably did not issue a death certificate in Bose’s name to maintain secrecy about his demise.

Based on available evidence, she is convinced that he died in the crash on August 18, 1945, and has proposed a DNA test on his remains kept at the Renkoji Temple in Japan to put the row to rest.

“There are some 33 files which the prime minister’s office had in its possession related to Netaji and these have been transferred to the National Archives”. He also tweeted that he would attend the declassification of Netaji’s files at the National Archives.

What can we expect in the classified Netaji files held by the government?

According to popular belief, there are some other theories about Netaji’s disappearance, one of them being that the leader fled to the Soviet Union to continue to fight for India’s independence but was killed.