
CALCUTTA, APRIL 2: All Indian Forward Bloc AIFB has urged the Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee to declassify hundreds of documents on Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose in the Government of India8217;s possession.
At a victory rally celebrating the Union Government decision 8220;to accept the demand for instituting a fresh inquiry commission to probe into the Netaji mystery,8221; State AIFB leader Ashoke Ghosh has urged the Union Government to declassify these documents for public viewing and research.
Expressing their gratitude to the Prime Minister and Union Home Minister L K Advani for the decision, the AIFB said, 8220;Our over two-decade struggle has been fruitful. The BJP-led coalition had to accept the verdict of the people who were agitated to see successive Governments trying their best to hush up Netaji8217;s case.8221;
Ghosh later told The Indian Express that the AIFB had information that the West Bengal Home Department had very important documents8217; on Netaji in its possession and added, 8220;We will ask theask the Left Front Government to release them for public viewing.8221;
Earlier, Ghosh also deplored the role of the local language press which decried the Union Government8217;s decision to institute a fresh probe. Terming the campaign against the decision as highly motivated8217;, Ghosh said: 8220;The people8217;s will can always defeat such disinformation campaigns.8221;