Centre renames Nehru Memorial as Prime Ministers' Museum and Library; Congress hits out ‘PM Modi can never take away..’
Narendra Modi can never take away the gigantic contributions of Jawaharlal Nehru in the country's freedom struggle. He further added the legacy of Jawaharlal Nehru will continue to inspire future generations.
Taking to his official handle on X, formerly Twitter, Ramesh posted on Wednesday, “From today, an iconic institution gets a new name. The world-renowned Nehru Memorial Museum and Library (NMML) becomes PMML—Prime Ministers’ Memorial Museum and Library.
Mr Modi possesses a huge bundle of fears, complexes and insecurities, especially when it comes to our first and longest-serving Prime Minister. He has had a single-point agenda of denying, distorting, defaming and destroying Nehru and the Nehruvian legacy." Replying to Jairam Ramesh's claims, BJP MP Ravi Shankar Prasad said, “There is a basic difference between the thinking of Congress party and Jairam Ramesh & PM Narendra Modi.
They (Congress) think that only Nehru ji and family matters. Narendra Modi gave a respectful position to all the PMs of the country at the museum...Why did Lal Bahadur Shastri get no space there? There was neither Indira Gandhi nor Rajiv Gandhi there nor Morarji Desai or Chaudhary Charan Singh or Atal Bihari Vajpayee or IK Gujral or HD Deve Gowda...When all the PMs are getting a space, it is becoming Pradhanmantri Smriti Library..." Another Congress leader Sandeep Dikshit called the change in name nothing but a frustrated mindset.
While speaking to news agency ANI, he said, “An institution was named after him and a museum was built to reflect his tenure...If you (Centre) had to make an institution on other PMs, you could have done it. But if you suppress or remove something, it means that your motive was never exhibition but an attempt to
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