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Netaji Files Cannot be Declassified - The Biggest Tamassha of Indian Politics

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http://www.dailyo.in/opinion/dear-prime-minister-where-do-we-go-to-get-netaji-subhas-chandra-bose-files-declassified-buckingham-palace-mission-netaji-rti/story/1/2121.html In a latest RTI revelation obtained by IT professional Sreejith Panickar - part of group "Mission Netaji" comprising this writer and friends - the prime minister's office has made stunning revelations. One, the PMO says that Prime Minister Narendra Modi actually has no power to declassify secret Subhas Chandra Bose files. "There are no mentions in Manual of Office Procedure or Public Records Rules, 1997, regarding any discretionary power vested in PM to declassify records," the PMO says. This comes in response to Panickar's poser: "Does the prime minister have any prerogative to issue an order to declassify the files and send them to the National Archives?"   Two, even as the PMO provides a list of 36 classified files concerning Netaji, it says it holds five more

Declassify Petition -Nation First. Interest of Foreign Countries - Let the foreigners worry about that

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https://www.change.org/p/narendra-modi-dear-prime-minister-release-secret-netaji-files-india-is-ready-to-handle-the-truth Declassify Petition to mount pressure on the ruling Government to uncover the Netaji Death Mystery. The current political party at Union promised to declassify before 2014 Parliament Election. Now is the time to translate that into action. This great Son of India has not returned to homeland for 70 years. Can we Indians sleep. No government of a country can serve the national Interest better by keeping the truth about one of nation's founding father in hiding on silly pretex t of (a)harming law and order of a country - a country that witnessed tens of large riots in recent past - 1984 and 2002 being phenomenal , and demolition of giant historic religious shrine in 1990 and the then government in power continue to rule unscatched. (b) with the collective effort of government at centre, Netaji the hero of India's independence is a "Forgotten Her