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India News Updates: Congress lashes out at BJP for changing Nehru Memorial Museum and Library's name to Prime Ministers' Memorial
India Live News Updates: Congress leader Sandeep Dikshit said, "This is nothing else but a frustrated mindset. Pt Jawaharlal Nehru was the first PM. An institution was named after him and a museum was built to reflect his tenure...If you (Centre) had to make an institution on other PMs, you could have done it. But if you suppress or remove something, it means that your motive was never exhibition but an attempt to suppress the golden history of India..."
Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut said, "What else are they left with?...You may change the name of the building but you can't change the name of Pandit Nehru that is mentioned in history. You can't change the history created by Mahatma Gandhi, Pandit Nehru, Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, Savarkar ji...You can't create a history like them so you are changing names."
Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut said, "What else are they left with?...You may change the name of the building but you can't change the name of Pandit Nehru that is mentioned in history. You can't change the history created by Mahatma Gandhi, Pandit Nehru, Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, Savarkar ji...You can't create a history like them so you are changing names."
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AAP on Nehru Memorial Museum and Library's name change:
"It is not in our culture to disrespect someone after his death. Jawaharlal Nehru had made a great contribution. This shows petty politics," said Delhi minister Saurabh Bharadwaj on renaming of Nehru Memorial in Delhi.
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India News Updates: Changing the name is a disgrace for the Modi government, says Pramod Tiwari
Congress MP Pramod Tiwari says on Nehru Memorial Museum and Library renamed as Prime Minister's Museum and Library, "Nehru Ji contributed so much to the freedom movement and helped in gaining Independence. Changing the name of the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library is a disgrace for the Modi government. Jawaharlal Nehru has drawn such a long line that he doesn't need your pity. His name is immortal"
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This country belongs to everyone. The country is not through a person but through a system and institution. This is a democracy...The PM is not a person but an institution. So, the Museum has been dedicated to all the PMs who served this nation.
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VC, Executive Council of Prime Ministers Museum & Library Surya Prakash on name change:
On 14th August chosen as the date for officially renaming Nehru Memorial Museum and Library (NMML) to Prime Ministers’ Museum and Library (PMML), A. Surya Prakash, Vice-Chairman, Executive Council, Prime Ministers Museum & Library says, "That is just a coincidence. The first initiative to change the name was taken on 15th June when the General Body of the Society was called...Under the law if we want to change the name of a Society, the General Body has to meet twice after the gap of a month. So, it met again on 18th July and reiterated the change of name. Then, it went to Registrar of Societies. This is the process..."
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You can't change the name of Pandit Nehru that is mentioned in history: Sanjay Raut on NMML name change row
Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut on Nehru Memorial Museum and Library said, "What else are they left with?...You may change the name of the building but you can't change the name of Pandit Nehru that is mentioned in history. You can't change the history created by Mahatma Gandhi, Pandit Nehru, Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, Savarkar ji...You can't create a history like them so you are changing names."
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Congress leader Sandeep Dikshit on Nehru Memorial Museum and Library's name change:
Congress leader Sandeep Dikshit said, "This is nothing else but a frustrated mindset. Pt Jawaharlal Nehru was the first PM. An institution was named after him and a museum was built to reflect his tenure...If you (Centre) had to make an institution on other PMs, you could have done it. But if you suppress or remove something, it means that your motive was never exhibition but an attempt to suppress the golden history of India..."
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Nehru Memorial Museum and Library (NMML) officially renamed as the PM’ Museum and Library
Nehru Memorial Museum and Library (NMML) officially renamed as the Prime Ministers’ Museum and Library (PMML) Society with effect from 14th August.
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From today, an iconic institution gets a new name. The world renowned Nehru Memorial Museum and Library (NMML) becomes PMML—Prime Ministers’ Memorial Museum and Library. Mr. Modi possesses a huge bundle of fears, complexes and insecurities, especially when it comes 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. He has erased N and put P instead. That P is really for pettiness and peeve. But he can never take away Nehru's gigantic contributions in the freedom movement and his towering achievements in building the democratic, secular, scientific and liberal foundations of the Indian nation-state, all of which are now under assault by Mr. Modi and his drumbeaters. Despite the relentless assault, Jawaharlal Nehru’s legacy will live on for the world to see and he will continue to inspire generations to come
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Centre renames Nehru Memorial as Prime Ministers' Museum and Library
The Nehru Memorial Museum and Library (NMML) has officially been renamed as the Prime Ministers’ Museum and Library (PMML) Society with effect from Monday by the Centre. PMML vice-chairman A Surya Prakash while taking to X, earlier known as Twitter confirmed the same.
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