Lal Bahadur Shastri's death was not natural, claims his family

NEW DELHI: Amid the ongoing controversy and mystery over Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose's death, former Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri's family has demanded that all files related to his death should be made public.

In an interview to news channel CNN-IBN, Lal Bahadur Shastri's son and Congress leader Anil Shastri said that his father's death did not look natural.

"When my father's body came to the Delhi airport, the Palam airport as it was called then, and when it was taken out of the aircraft, that came as a shock because his body had turned blue. His face had turned blue and there were white spots on the temple," Anil Shastri told the news channel.

"The moment my mother saw the body, she straightaway came to the conclusion that it was not a natural death," Anil Shastri said.

"My mother told the family that it was a foul play," Anil Shastri said.

Anil Shastri urged the Prime Minister that documents related to Lal Bahadur Shastri's death should be declassified.

On September 18, the West Bengal government declassified 64 files related to Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose.

There is enough indication that Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose might have been alive after 1945, chief minister Mamata Banerjee had claimed after declassifying 64 secret files on Netaji.