New Delhi: Hitting out on the Centre over the official renaming of the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library (NMML) within the nationwide capital, Congress chief Jairam Ramesh on Wednesday stated Prime Minister Narendra Modi can by no means take away the large contributions of Jawaharlal Nehru within the nation’s freedom battle. The Nehru Memorial Museum and Library (NMML) was formally renamed the Prime Ministers’ Museum and Library (PMML) by the Centre on Monday.
Taking to his official deal with on X, previously Twitter, Ramesh posted on Wednesday, “From at the moment, an iconic establishment will get a brand new identify. The world-renowned Nehru Memorial Museum and Library (NMML) turns into PMML—Prime Ministers’ Memorial Museum and Library. Mr Modi possesses an enormous bundle of fears, complexes and insecurities, particularly with regards 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.”
आज से एक प्रतिष्ठित संस्थान को नया नाम मिल गया है। विश्व प्रसिद्ध नेहरू मेमोरियल म्यूजियम एंड लाइब्रेरी (NMML) अब प्रधान मंत्री मेमोरियल म्यूजियम एंड लाइब्रेरी (PMML) बन गया है।
प्रधानमंत्री मोदी भय, हीन भावना और असुरक्षा से भरे नज़र आते हैं, विशेष रूप से तब, जब बात हमारे पहले… https://t.co/UEEwCWaIqE
— Jairam Ramesh (@Jairam_Ramesh) August 16, 2023
“He has erased N and put P as a substitute. That P is basically for pettiness and peeve. However he can by no means take away Nehru’s gigantic contributions to the liberty motion and his towering achievements in constructing the democratic, secular, scientific and liberal foundations of the Indian nation-state, all of which at the moment are underneath assault by Mr Modi and his drumbeaters,” the Congress chief added.
Ramesh stated additional the legacy of Jawaharlal Nehru will proceed to encourage future generations. “Regardless of the relentless assault, Jawaharlal Nehru’s legacy will stay on for the world to see and he’ll proceed to encourage generations to return,” he stated.
Earlier, on Wednesday, the vice-chairman of the Prime Ministers’ Museum and Library (PMML), A Surya Prakash, took to X to tell of the renaming of the museum. “Nehru Memorial Museum and Library (NMML) is now Prime Ministers Museum and Library (PMML) Society w.e.f August 14, 2023 – in tune with the democratisation and diversification of the remit of the society. Comfortable Independence Day! PM Narendra Modi, Rajnath Singh, Min Of Tradition GoI,” Prakash posted on X.
The Union Tradition Ministry put out an official phrase that it had determined to alter the identify of the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library Society to the Prime Ministers’ Museum and Library Society. The choice was taken at a particular assembly of the Memorial Museum and Library Society, which was presided over by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, who can also be the vice-president of the Society.
The mission was accepted by Government Council, NMML in its 162nd assembly held in November 2016. The Pradhanmantri Sangrahalaya was opened to the general public on April 21, final yr.
The Tradition Ministry, in its launch, stated the museum is a “seamless mix that begins on the renovated and refurbished Nehru Museum constructing, now utterly up to date with technologically superior shows on the life and contribution of Jawaharlal Nehru”.