New Delhi/ Bilaspur: As India debates snooping on the family members of freedom fighter Subhas Chandra Bose by the then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, the Congress party on Monday (April 13) downplayed a meeting between Bose’s family and Prime Minster Narendra Modi in Germany. Modi would meet Bose’s grand nephew in Berlin. Congress party spokesman Abhishek Manu Singhvi said Modi’s meeting with Bose’s relatives should not be linked to the controversy. BJP leader Subramanian Swamy, decried snooping on Bose’s family. CPI leader D Raja said the government should put all the documents in the public domain to clear the air. Reacting to the controversy, Minister of State for Home Affairs, Kiren Rijiju said the previous government headed by the Congress party had released the documents. He wondered why the Congress was raising hue and cry on the issue. Bose, 48, was believed to have died in an air crash in Taiwan on August 18, 1945, three days after Japan’s surrender to the allied forces. But his death is surrounded in mystery, many historians arguing that he faked the accident to avoid arrest.
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