Letters from Edwina Mountbatten, Jayaprakash Narayan — Why are Congress, BJP sparring over ‘missing’ Nehru documents?
Live MintA series of letters written by Jawaharlal Nehru has become the focal point of a fresh Congress-BJP debate this month. The ruling party asked former Congress president Sonia Gandhi to return the correspondences of India's first prime minister on Monday, insisting that the historical documents belonged to the country and were not anyone's personal property. The letters became a matter of discussion earlier this year as historian Rizwan Kadri urged Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi to return the documents or at least permit digital access to the private papers. According to Kadri the ‘missing’ documents include letters exchanged between Nehru and Edwina Mountbatten — the wife of British viceroy Lord Louis Mountbatten. The BJP asked former Congress president Sonia Gandhi to return the correspondences on Monday — contending that the historical documents belonged to the country.
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