Sambit Patra criticized the Congress after the Prime Minister’s Museum and Library demanded the return of Nehru documents

BJP MP Sambit Patra on Monday slammed the Congress after the Prime Minister’s Museum and Library (PMML) Society asked the Congress to return the Nehru documents that were allegedly removed from the museum in 2008 at the behest of Sonia Gandhi.

speaking with ANIMr. Patra wanted the Gandhi family not to know what was in those letters.” Initially, the memorial contained only historical records of Nehruji, including all the letters Nehruji wrote to world leaders. Later. There were 51 cartons written to several leaders in 2008, when Sonia Gandhi was the UPA president, she visited the memorial one day and all these He took the letters with him,” he said.

“Now, during the AGM meeting, Rizwan ji, a historian has written a letter to Rahul Gandhi asking why this was done. He has requested Rahul Gandhi to help recover these important letters, which were public property,” the BJP MP added. . Moreover, Sambit Patra questioned the Congress’s intentions behind the issue.

“The question is whether Rahul Gandhi, as Leader of the Opposition (LOP), will actually talk to Sonia Gandhi to return these letters to the nation. People want to know what Nehru ji wrote to Edwina Mountbatten. When the decision was made. 2010 All these documents digitized To do, why did Sonia Gandhi not want the nation to know what was in these letters before they could be digitized? said

Meanwhile, Rizwan Qadri, a member of the Prime Minister’s Museum and Library (PMML) Society, has written to Lok Sabha Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi requesting the return of the documents, which he termed an “important piece of history”. It was allegedly removed from the museum on the orders of senior Congress leader Sonia Gandhi.

“In September 2024, I wrote a letter to Sonia Gandhi requesting that 51 cartons from around eight different volumes, which were part of the Nehru Collection at the Prime Minister’s Museum (formerly the Nehru Memorial), either not be returned to the institution. Or that we be allowed to scan them, or Scanned copies of them will be made available which will facilitate us to study them and conduct various types of research,” he said.

“It contains important correspondence between Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru and Lady Mountbatten, as well as letters exchanged with Pandit Gobind Ballabh Pant, Jayaprakash Narayan and others. These letters are an important part of Indian history and are attested by records. Removed from the museum in 2008 at the direction of Sonia Gandhi, Rizwan Qadri added.