Honoured Sir,
The West Bengal Government has done the needful by way of declassification of all Netaji Files in its custody today. We, the citizens of this country, now exhort you to do the same with all Classified Netaji Files in the possession of the Central Government. It is high time that the nation gets to know everything about the tallest hero of our freedom struggle and, you, being the representative of our highest hopes and aspirations cannot but redeem your pledge to the nation to declassify all Netaji Secret Files. The people are alive with expectation now and no amount of political expediency or reasoning that domestic peace may be disrupted and international relations may be affected will hold ground now. Truth will surface today or tomorrow. History has chosen you to be the deliverer of this deed and you shall forever endear yourself to the people of this land by bringing to light the truth.
In no nation of the world perhaps, their greatest leader who has brought them independence has been so discredited of his achievements as in India. Netaji and his I.N.A. have not been given their due place in the history of independent India and their contribution acknowledged as being paramount in bringing India independence in the final phase of the freedom struggle. It is time now to set right these imbalances of the past and rewrite the history of the freedom movement and post-independence India on the basis of researched truth and not fabricated falsities. To achieve this end, I, Sri Sugata Bose, on behalf of the whole country and countless Indians and Netaji admirers scattered across the world, appeal to you fervently that you in your good sense shall forthwith make room for the declassification of all Netaji Files held in in the custody of your Government. This is my humble petition to you, Sir, and may I remind you those glorious words of Swami Vivekananda who Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose considered his guiding light in life and who is your life's inspiration as well: "Truth does not pay homage to any society, ancient or modern. Society has to pay homage to truth or die. Societies should be moulded upon truth, and truth has not to adjust itself to society. That society is the greatest, where the highest truths become practical. That is my opinion; and if society is not fit for the highest truths, make it so; and the sooner, the better."
With these letters of gold fraught with the highest wisdom of the patriot prophet of India and with the ruddy drops spilled from the bullet-ridden bodies of the 26,000 martyrs of the I.N.A., I, along with countless others, remain in expectation of the Declassification of the Netaji Files and in the resurrection of our beloved Netaji.
Yours in Truth,
Sugata Bose.
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