Why BJP is asking Gandhi family to return Nehru’s letters to Edwina Mountbatten

The BJP is trying to corner the Congress over Sonia Gandhi allegedly getting removed ‘donated’ papers belonging to Jawaharlal Nehru in 2008, which had letters to several personalities including Edwina Mountbatten and Albert Einstein. The Bharatiya Janata Party is using the issue of these letters, which reportedly include Nehru’s correspondence with Edwina Mountbatten, Albert Einstein, Aruna Asaf Ali and Jayaprakash Narayan, among others, to target the Gandhi family. BJP MP Sambit Patra wrote in a tweet, “From what’s today the Prime Minister’s Museum and Library and formerly Nehru Museum and Library, the then UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi took away 51 cartoons of letters written by Nehru to various personalities including “EDWINA MOUNTBATTEN”! In the recently concluded AGM of the PMML one of the members, Rizwan Kadri has written to LoP Rahul Gandhi and sought his help in getting back the letters from his mother Sonia Gandhi!” #WATCH | BJP MP Sambit Patra says, "Prime Minister's Museum and Library Society member, Rizwan Qadri has written a letter to the Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi requesting that 51 boxes taken by Congress… pic.twitter.com/nMmIFJ87Sb — ANI December 16, 2024 BJP’s Amit Malviya made similar remarks, raising questions about Nehru’s correspondence with Edwina Mountbatten that “warranted such censorship”.