In response to the renaming of the Nehru Museum as the Prime Ministers’ Museum, Congress MP Rahul Gandhi stated that Nehru is renowned not only for his name, but also for his work.
Rahul Gandhi’s remark on the renaming controversy comes a day after the BJP and the Congress engaged in a verbal spat in which the Congress said the BJP substituted N with P, symbolizing the party’s pettiness and annoyance. The BJP said that the courtiers are simply grieving.
“Nehru Ji ki pehchaan unke karam hai, unka naam nahi,” Rahul Gandhi said at airport on his way to Ladakh. The Nehru Memorial Museum and Library has been officially renamed as the Prime Minister’s Museum and Library Society from August 14.
“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. “He (Modi) has erased N and put P instead. That P is really for pettiness and peeve,” Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh said.
According to the BJP, the museum now concentrates on all prime leaders, moving away from Nehru, whereas no other PM received any space in the Nehru Museum. Shashi Tharoor, Congress leader, said it was petty to remove the name of the first prime minister in order to allow other prime ministers.
“You could have continued calling it the Nehru Memorial Prime Ministers Museum and Library,” Tharoor added. The vice chairman of the museum, Surya Prakash, said Nehru’s contribution has not been whittled down in the new museum showcase.
“Anyone visiting the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library (NMML) can see how we have showcased Nehru, his temples of modern India, the Hirakud Dam, Nagarajuna Sagar Dam, his idea of setting up institutes of technology, and Planning Commission in his 17-year tenure as PM at the Teen Murti Bhavan,” Surya Prakash said.