Leave Nehru memorial complex undisturbed: Manmohan Singh urges PM Modi
New Delhi, Aug 27 (IBNS): Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has urged his successor Narendra Modi not to disturb the Jawaharlal Nehru memorial complex, which the central government is planning to convert into a museum, media reports said.
In an open letter, Singh said the complex, which has been named after India's first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, must not be "disturbed", out of respect for history and heritage.
The government is reportedly planning to convert Nehru Memorial Museum and Library (NMNL) into a museum for all Prime Ministers.
Singh even invoked former Prime Minister late Atal Bihari Vajpayee in his letter, saying the latter's government, which ran between 1998 and 2004 uninterrupted, did not indulge itself in such plannings.
Singh has been quoted by NDTV as saying, NMNL is "dedicated to the memory of India's first Prime Minister and the prime architect of the Indian nation-state, who left behind an indelible imprint on our country and indeed on the world".
In his letter, Modi's immediate predecessor and the two-time Prime Minister quoted Vajpayee's speech at the parliament after Nehru's demise. "As Atal Bihari Vajpayeeji himself said in his moving speech to Parliament when Panditji passed away: 'Such a resident may never grace Teen Murti again. That vibrant personality, that attitude of taking even the opposition along, that refined gentlemanliness, that greatness we may not again see in the near future. In spite of a difference of opinion we have nothing but respect for his great ideals, his integrity, his love for the country and his indomitable courage'."
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