Former prime minister Manmohan Singh, in a strongly-worded letter, has urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to leave the Jawaharlal Nehru memorial complex in Delhi "undisturbed" out of respect for history and heritage. "Jawaharlal Nehru belongs not just to the Congress but to the entire nation," Dr Singh says in the letter sent on Friday.
Click News Daily The two-time prime minister's letter is spurred by a controversy over the government's plans for a museum for all prime ministers in the Teen Murti complex, which houses the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library (NMML).
Invoking Atal Behari Vajpayee, who died on August 16, Dr Singh wrote that during the BJP stalwart's tenure as prime minister, "there was absolutely no attempt made to change the nature and character of NMML and Teen Murti complex in any way. But sadly, that seems to be part of the agenda of the government now.
His distinctiveness and greatness have been acknowledged even by his opponents and rivals, he wrote.
The government is believed to have started work on its Rs. 270-crore project.
That lively identity, that disposition of taking even the resistance along, that refined honorability, that greatness we may not again see in the near future. Notwithstanding a distinction of supposition we don't have anything however regard for his extraordinary standards, his trustworthiness, his affection for the country and his indomitable courage'."
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Click News Daily in Hindi The exhibition hall, said Dr Singh, must hold its essential spotlight on Nehru and the flexibility battle due to his "unique role having spent almost ten years in jail between the early 1920s and mid-1940s. "No amount of revisionism can obliterate that role and his contributions," he wrote.
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