The Nehru Memorial Museum and Library (NMML) Society, an autonomous body under the Government of India, announced on Friday that the institution would be renamed as the ‘Prime Ministers Museum and Library Society’, setting off a political controversy and a war of words between the Congress and the BJP.
As soon as the decision was announced, Congress president Mallikarjuna Kharge accused the BJP of trying to wipe out “the history of others as it had no history of its own” while his counterpart in the BJP, J.P. Nadda, retaliated by saying that the Congress was suffering from “political indigestion, the inability to accept a simple fact that there are leaders from beyond one dynasty who have served and built our nation”.
The decision to rename the institution, removing late Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru’s name, was taken at a special meeting of the NMML Society on Thursday, presided over by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, the vice-president of the Society, a statement from the Ministry of Culture said on Friday.
