A ruling BJD MlA urged the State Government to be part of the process of declassification of documents and pictures of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose.
The State should take steps for release of documents, pictures or visuals on Netaji if there were any and intervene in the ongoing debate on the declassification of files relating to him, Amar Prasad Satpathy said.
Citing recent media reports of possible presence of Netaji at a gathering with former Prime Minister lal Bahadur Shastri during the Indo-Pak peace talks in Tashkent in 1966, Satpathy said the State Government should release rare pictures of the national hero, if any.
As the nationalist leader was born in Cuttack and had his school education in Odisha, the State Government should have possessed some interesting pictures, he said, adding that it could be that it may have certain recorded facts about him.