The Newshour Debate: Govt non-committal over declassifying #NetajiFiles
In a debate moderated by TIMES NOW's Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami, panelists -- Tathagata Roy, Member, National Executive, BJP; Sharmistha Mukherjee, Spokesperson, Congress; Chandra Kumar Bose, Grandnephew of Netaji Subash Chandra Bose; Anuj Dhar, Author & RTI Activist; and Prof Mridula Mukherjee, Professor Modern History, JNU -- discuss the issue whether Govt is non-commital on declassification of Netaji files.
Amidst a raging controversy over reports of surveillance on family members of Netaji SubhashChandra Bose during the Nehru era, Government today said it has no plans to conduct any probe into such reports. A controversy recently broke out following reports that Netaji's family was kept under surveillance by the Intelligence Bureau for 20 years, much of it during the tenure of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru.
Amidst a raging controversy over reports of surveillance on family members of Netaji SubhashChandra Bose during the Nehru era, Government today said it has no plans to conduct any probe into such reports. A controversy recently broke out following reports that Netaji's family was kept under surveillance by the Intelligence Bureau for 20 years, much of it during the tenure of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru.