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Nehru should be stripped of Bharat Ratna: Netaji's descendant
Kolkata, April 20
A descendant of Netaji
Subhas Chandra Bose on Monday said former prime minister Jawaharlal
Nehru should be stripped of the Bharat Ratna in the light of recent
revelations alleging snooping on family members of the revolutionary
leader by successive Congress governments.
Family spokesperson Chandra Kumar Bose said Nehru's character is now open before the public eye since the revelations.
"Bharat
Ratna is a civilian award and the character that Nehru has displayed...
he doesn't deserve the award. The people of this country demand that
Nehru's Bharat Ratna should be stripped. His Bharat Ratna should be
taken away," Chandra Kumar, Netaji's grand nephew, told IANS.
According
to documents accessed by author and researcher Anuj Dhar, Bose's close
relatives, including his two nephews Sisir Kumar Bose and Amiya Nath
Bose, were purportedly spied upon for 20 years between 1948 and 1968.
Nehru was the prime minister for 16 of those 20 years.
The
clamour for publicising over 150 secret documents too has been gaining
ground with the Narendra Modi-led central government setting up an
inter-ministerial committee headed by the cabinet secretary to review
the Official Secrets Act in the context of such files.