Grand nephew of Bose, Chandra Kumar Bose, joins BJP

HOWRAH ( WEST BENGAL): Chandra Kumar Bose, grand nephew of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, today joined BJP in presence of party president Amit Shah.

Bose was present at a public meeting here, which was addressed by Shah.

Bose had earlier attended the ceremony where 100 files on Netaji were declassified by the NDA government on January 23 and had said, "We welcome this step by the Prime Minister wholeheartedly. This is a day of transparency in India."

He had also stated that "We feel that certain very important files were destroyed during the Congress regime in order to hide the truth. We have documentary evidence to understand this. So, we feel the Indian government should take steps to ensure the release of files lying in Russia, Germany, UK and USA."