Anuj Dhar, the writer on the controversy surrounding Subhas Chandra Bose's disappearance whose book "No Secrets" also made a pitch for the declassification of the Bose files, said that he has come to know "at least four secret files that were in existence in the Internal Security Division of the Ministry of Home Affairs during the Atal Bihari Vajpayee days are no longer there".
He has made a stunning allegation that the UPA government is making files relating to the iconic freedom fighter's fate "disappear".He says that in March 2007, the then Union home secretary informed the Central Information Commission that disclosure of many Top Secret Bose-related documents "would lead to a serious law and order problem in the country, especially in West Bengal".
Dhar has then remarked thus: "The MHA subsequently stated that any decision concerning the disclosure of these records has to be taken at the highest level. Later that year, then Home Minister Shivraj Patil referred the issue of these records to the Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs headed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. While the CCPA decided in favour of the release, only a few, mostly non-sensitive records were eventually released. I wonder which 'highest-level' authority came in the way."
Regarding the four ISD files Dhar says their disappearance indicates that "they have either been destroyed or moved with a view to concealing their very existence". Asked what could have been the motive, Dhar says, "Perhaps the Congress party is wary of a regime change in 2014."
India Honest reminds of the fact that the family of Netaji have often in the past had accused Nehru of ordering the government to snoop on the Bose family? And now with the opening of files one serious suspicion rises, "Do these files contain new details pertaining to that accusation on Congress and the leader Nehru?
Ardhendu Bose, nephew of Subhas Chandra Bose, emphasises why the Centre should declassify files on the legendary freedom fighter. On being asked that in the past, you have often accused Nehru of ordering the government to snoop on the Bose family? Do these files contain new details pertaining to that?
He said, "Our family was snooped on right till Nehru's death in 1964. If Netaji had indeed died in 1945 -- which Nehru had maintained throughout -- then what was the need to keep a watch on the family? This is further evidence that the plane crash theory was completely false. These files contain all these details. Moreover, we will also get to know about the snooping that Nehru ordered on the soldiers of the Indian National Army. The soldiers of INA were spread across the country and they were being watched all the time.
India Honest have serious doubt as well inherent conviction on the point now asked before West Bengal election, "If Opening of Netaji Files will Badly Hurt Morale of Congress ?"
Ashok Jain : Rahul, You are 200% right . Narendra Modi must toe the line of the students of an institution made in the name of your party's great leader Jawaharlal Nehru, even if that line is anti national or most horrible criminal line of sedition.
How dare the NaMo Government to bully the patriot students, who though want to destroy India ? Why the government should stop the students' demand of freedom of Kashmir and why deny handover of Kashmir to Pakistan ?
Sadly one must agree with Rahul Gandhi's ideology that the arrest of the group of separatists and traitors and restriction on their activities is anti freedom of speech and thus condemnable. Yes that makes a good reason of Rahul's Congress party's joining hands with the Left in Bengal, as the Left have toed the same line for decades.
Suresh Kochattil : This guy has the IQ of a Snail and no wonder he makes blunders, day in and day out.
Radhakrishnan Raman : I agree with Rahul Gandhi's views, but on the condition, that the killers of Shri Rajiv Gandhi and Mahatma Gandhi also be accorded the same respect which Afzal Guru commands in his heart. After all he must pay his respects to LTTE and Ghodse if he is genuinely concerned like his great grandfather Pandit Nehru, about a university providing democratic spaces for disagreements and differences!!