Declassified Netaji files

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FILES REVISITED// Prime Minister Narendra Modi released the first set of 100 secret files on Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose on the birth anniversary of the legendary freedom fighter, in presence of Bose's family members. Modi released digital copies of 100 files at the National Archives of India, following the government's decision to declassify files on the freedom fighter who raised an army to fight the British and whose death in an air crash continues to be a mystery even after seven decades. The government plans to release in the public domain 25 declassified files each month. The release of the first set coincided with the 119th birth anniversary of the freedom fighter and comes months before West Bengal goes to polls. The family members of Netaji thanked the prime minister for declassifying the files. However, the files do not seem to throw up any new evidence suggesting the freedom fighter survived the plane crash in Taihoku, now in Taiwan, on August 18, 1945.

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