Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said on Saturday Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose must be given the title “Leader of the Nation." This came minutes after Prime Minister Narendra Modi declassified a set of files relating to the freedom fighter.
#NetajiSubhasChandraBose must be given the title 'Leader of the Nation'. He deserves that honour
— Mamata Banerjee (@MamataOfficial) January 23, 2016
It is our responsibility towards the young & future generation to share with them the truth of #NetajiSubhasChandraBose
— Mamata Banerjee (@MamataOfficial) January 23, 2016
Netaji, one of the leading lights of the Indian freedom struggle, set up the INA during World War II to take on the British Indian Army.
A former Congress President and once a close associate of Mahatma Gandhi, Bose's reported death in a plane crash in Formosa, now Taiwan, in 1945 has remained a mystery.
(With agency inputs)