New Delhi: The former United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government had rejected declassifying documents related to Subhas Chandra Bose claiming it could lead to a law and order situation, alleged Netaji's grand-nephew on Monday.
"The previous government, Prime Minister's Office and Home Ministry made a volatile statement saying that these classified files in PM's Office cannot be declassified," Surya Bose told ANI from Berlin.
"They (UPA) said if they do, they would have law and order problem and problems with friendly nations," he informed.
Demanding that the secret files related to Netaji be declassified by the Modi government, he said, "There is a movement (of declassification) going on in India which has built up quite a momentum."
Bose's family members are likely meet to Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Berlin today and discuss the issue.
The family has already demanded that the Narendra Modi government declassify the secret files related to Netaji and the clan.
Earlier, Netaji's grand-nephew Chandra Kumar Bose said, "It is shocking. It is not an issue involving merely the family, but the entire nation, because several members of the family from Sarat Chandra Bose to Amiya Nath Bose as also Sisir Kumar Bose were prominent freedom fighters."
Sugato Bose, another grand-nephew of the leader and Trinamool Congress Lok Sabha member, said a "great wrong" has been done by snooping on the family.
Recent reports revealed that the family of Netaji was placed under intensive surveillance from 1948 to 1968 by the central government.
The country had three Congress prime ministers during these 20 years - Jawaharlal Nehru, Lal Bahadur Shastri and Indira Gandhi.
(With Agency Inputs)
