Personal letters from Jawaharlal Nehru, India’s first prime minister, to Sonia Gandhi in 2008 under the UPA government have been formally asked to be returned by the Prime Ministers’ Museum and Library (PMML).
Rahul Gandhi, the leader of the Congress, was urged by PMML member Rizwan Kadri in a letter dated December 10 to either obtain the original letters from Sonia Gandhi or produce photocopies or digital versions. This comes after Sonia Gandhi received a similar request in September.
The Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial first gave the letters, which are regarded as having enormous historical significance, to the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library (now PMML) in 1971. But according to reports, in 2008, they were shipped to Sonia Gandhi in 51 boxes.
The collection includes correspondence between Nehru and prominent figures such as Edwina Mountbatten, Albert Einstein, Jayaprakash Narayan, Padmaja Naidu, Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, Aruna Asaf Ali, Babu Jagjivan Ram, and Govind Ballabh Pant, among others.
