New Delhi: A week after Centre agreed to make public all files related to freedom fighter Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Tuesday requested Russia for their cooperation in the declassification of files.
The issue was raised by External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj during her meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.
"The Russian Minister said he will look into the matter and will let India know if there was any information," External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Vikas Swarup said.
Bose's family feels a number of countries including Japan, Russia, Germany and Britain have information on his disappearance.
Russia has assured Sushma Swaraj that Russia will look into India's request for declassification of Netaji files.
On October 14, PM Modi had promised Netaji Subash Chandra's family that the process of declassification will begin on January 23 next year, the 118th birth anniversary of the leader, whose disappearance 70 years ago still remains a mystery.
The demands for declassification of secret files have been growing lately, especially after the Mamata Banerjee government in West Bengal last month declassified 64 files which were in its possession.
The files, running into nearly 13,000 pages, showed some of Bose's close family members were spied on in independent India but there was no clarity whether he died in an air crash in 1945 as is widely believed.
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