BJP asks Congress to return Nehru letters that museum gave Sonia

BJP asks Congress to return Nehru letters that museum gave Sonia

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New Delhi: The BJP on Monday asked former Congress president Sonia Gandhi to return the correspondence made by India’s first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, with a host of personalities, to the Prime Ministers’ Museum and Library, and wondered what were in these documents which the Gandhi family didn’t want to become public.

BJP MP Sambit Patra cited reports of the Prime Ministers’ Museum and Library’s (PMML) deliberations on the issue to note that Nehru’s correspondence with Edwina Mountbatten, wife of the last British viceroy to India, and eminent leaders Jayaprakash Narayan and Jagjivan Ram lay with the erstwhile Nehru Museum and Library Society, which returned them to Sonia Gandhi in 2008.

Addressing a press conference, Patra said the historical documents belonged to the country and were not anyone’s personal property.

The Nehru museum was expanded to include memorials to all prime ministers and renamed the Prime Ministers’ Museum and Library after the BJP came to power at the Centre.

Patra told reporters that 51 cartons of Nehru’s correspondences were given to Sonia Gandhi after approval of the museum’s then director.


However, after seeking legal opinion, Rizwan Kadri — one of the 29 members of the society tasked with running the PMML — recently wrote to the Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi, seeking his help in restoring the papers to the museum’s custody, he added. The BJP leader said Kadri did not receive any reply.Taking a swipe at the Gandhi family, Patra said these were not personal property but historical documents which were part of India’s ‘treasures’. As Nehru was a member of the family, it suffers from a sense of entitlement over his letters, he alleged.

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