As per its promises, the government of India has been declassifying the secret files associated with Neta Ji Subhash Chandra Bose for the last few months. In the same series, one of the disclosed files on 27 May hint that Neta Ji was living as K. K. Bhandari in the Shalumari Ashram in North Bengal in the decades of 50s and 60s.

The files reveal that the secretary of the Shalumari Ashram sent letter to then Prime Minister J. L. Nehru, talking about the Subhash Chandra Bose. After that, the PM office and the intelligence bureau made several references about K. K. Bhandari, in May, September and November 1963. However, the content of these references and letters on K. K. Bhandari is still kept secret.

In 1999, the Mukharji Commission pressurized the government to make those files on available for investigation, by disparaging their secrecy level from top secret to secret. In July 2000, those files were downgraded to secret tag, and the investigations began. Although the same Mukharji Commission stated that the Shalumari Baba was not Neta Ji, the name of K. K. Bhandari in the alter ego theories of Subhash Chandra Bose has surfaced, and undoubtedly, has ignited a nationwide debate.