Netaji's grand-nephew likely to meet PM Modi in Berlin today

Freedom fighter 'Netaji' Subhash Chandra Bose's grand-nephew, Surya Bose, is likely to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Berlin today, even as a storm rages over the alleged surveillance on relatives of the Indian National Army (INA) founder.

Surya Bose's younger brother Chandra said that the former has received an invitation to attend a reception in Berlin, during which he will meet the Prime Minister.

"We have requested my elder brother, Surya Bose, to meet the Prime Minister. He has received an invitation to a reception in Berlin, which would be held this evening. He took the opportunity because of the new shocking revelation: that members of the Bose family, including my father, were kept under surveillance for around two decades," Chandra told ANI.

Chandra further demanded that the government declassify all the documents related to Netaji and the Indian National Army.

Earlier, two recently declassified IB files had revealed that the former prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru-led government had order a surveillance on the Netaji's kin between 1948 and 1968. The files reveal that the IB had resumed British-era surveillance on the two Bose family homes in Calcutta at Woodburn Park and Elgin Road.