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Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has urged his successor Narendra Modi to leave the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library complex near Teen Murti House undisturbed as it is.
In a letter, Singh said the country’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru belongs not just to the Congress, but to the entire nation.
He said earlier when Atal Bihari Vajpayee was the Prime Minister, there was no attempt to change the nature and character of the NMML and the Teen Murti complex.
“The NMML must remain a centre of first-rate scholarship and professional excellence. The museum itself must retain its primary focus on Jawaharlal Nehru and the freedom movement because of 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,” Singh said in the letter.
“As Atal Bihari Vajpayeeji himself said in his moving speech to Parliament when Panditji passed away: ‘Such a resident may never grace Teen Murti again. That vibrant personality, that attitude of taking even the opposition along, that refined gentlemanliness, that greatness we may not again see in the near future. In spite of a difference of opinion we have nothing but respect for his great ideals, his integrity, his love for the country and his indomitable courage’,” he added in the letter.
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