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Were Bose files destroyed in clean-up op? Probe on Mohua Chatterjee,TNN | May 18, 2015, 12.31 AM IST NEW DELHI: The government has told Parliament that it is "collecting information" on whether files related to Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose were part of those that were destroyed between May 2014 and February 2015. Trinamool Congress MP in Rajya Sabha Sukhendu Sekhar Roy had asked the home minister "how many government files were ordered to be destroyed between May 2014 and February 2015 and the reasons thereof, whether any file relating to Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose was destroyed during that period, and if so, the reasons thereof"? Minister of state for home affairs Kiren Rijiju gave a written reply in Rajya Sabha on May 13 that "information was being collected and would be laid on the table of the House". Roy's question was first put on March 13 in the first half of the budget session for which he sought a reply on April 22. But Rajya Sabha did not commence on April 22 as the House was prorogued. Thereafter, the same questions were repeated on April 27 and a reply was sought on May 13. READ ALSO Why are Bose files such a top secret? activist asks Declassification of Netaji files country's duty: Modi PM Modi to 'personally' look into Netaji files While Roy is waiting for a reply, many MPs are wondering why it is taking so long for the ministry to get information that was first asked two months ago. In July last year, home ministry had told Rajya Sabha that it had destroyed 11,100 files following Prime Minister Narendra Modi's instructions to all government departments to weed out irrelevant and outdated files. In another reply to questions from Roy on whether the government plans to declassify Netaji files, the home ministry had said on December 17, 2014 that it could not be done. The information contained in those files with the external affairs ministry were of "sensitive nature and bringing it into the public domain at this juncture is not desirable from the point of view of India's relations with other countries", another minister of state for home affairs Haribhai Parthibhai Chaudhary had said in his written reply to the House. -- Peace Is Doable -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
