In a stunning flip of occasions, a member of the Prime Ministers Museum & Library, or PMML, has written to Lok Sabha MP Rahul Gandhi searching for return of letters written and obtained by former PM Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, that are reportedly within the custody of Sonia Gandhi. According to an Indian Express report, in 2008, Sonia Gandhi assigned a consultant to take away a good portion of the ‘donated’ Jawaharlal Nehru papers from the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library (NMML), now often called PMML.
The paperwork embody Nehru’s correspondence with Edwina Mountbatten, Albert Einstein, Aruna Asaf Ali, Jayaprakash Narayan, Vijaya Laxmi Pandit, Babu Jagjivan Ram and Govind Ballabh Pant, stated Ahmedabad-based historian Rizwan Kadri in his letter to Rahul Gandhi. Although PMML members had beforehand raised issues in regards to the lacking Nehru papers on a number of events, it was throughout the 2024 AGM that the minutes explicitly recorded the previous UPA chairperson’s elimination of 51 cartons from the donated assortment, reported the IE.
In a letter dated September 9, addressed to Sonia Gandhi, Kadri emphasised the significance of conserving these information accessible to help a radical understanding of the nation’s historical past. He urged Sonia Gandhi to both return the papers, share copies, or present digitized entry to them.
In a particular assembly of the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library Society in June 2023, it was determined to alter its identify to Prime Ministers’ Museum and Library Society. Prime Minister Narendra Modi had mooted the concept of organising a museum devoted to all of the Prime Ministers of India on Teen Murti Premises, New Delhi in 2016.
The Executive Council, NMML had in its 162nd assembly held on 25-11-2016 had accredited the development of the Museum of all Prime Ministers within the Teen Murti Estate. The mission was accomplished and the Pradhanmantri Sangrahalaya was opened to the general public on twenty first April 2022.
