New Delhi, August 27: Ex-Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has written a strongly worded letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and claimed that the BJP-led NDA government is pursuing an "agenda to change the nature and character” of the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library (NMML) and the Teen Murti complex, according to Indian Express report. Singh in his letter further asserts that Jawaharlal Nehru belongs not just to the Congress, but to the “entire” country and asked PM Modi to ensure that the Teen Murti complex be left “undisturbed”.

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Singh further pointed out that during late Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s tenure as Prime Minister, “there was absolutely no attempt made to change the nature and character of the NMML and the Teen Murti complex in any way. He expressed his sadness over the fact that the agenda of the current government has changed. As quoted in the Indian Express report, Singh said, "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’.”

Singh, therefore, urged to keep Teen Murti as a memorial to our first Prime Minister Pandit Nehru and leave the Teen Murti complex undisturbed as it is, as a mark of respect to both history and legacy. Former PM's letter came after NMML director Shakti Sinha announced in July this year that a museum for all former prime ministers of the country will be built in the Teen Murti Bhavan complex housing the Jawaharlal Nehru memorial.

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