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Nehru papers 'not private property', with Sonia: Govt
Financial Express Pune
|December 18, 2025
IN ITS FIRST official remark, the Ministry of Culture — in a series of social media posts on Wednesday — said that Congress leader Sonia Gandhi took away “all of the private family letters and notes” of former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru from Prime Ministers’ Museum & Library (then Nehru Memorial Museum & Library) in 2008, and that PMML has been in correspondence with her to reclaim the documents.
Union Minister Gajendra Shekhawat said on Wednesday that Sonia Gandhi has acknowledged in writing that “these papers are with her” and promised to “cooperate” on the issue.
It was reported a day earlier that Sonia has assured the PMML of her cooperation in its bid to obtain a trove of private papers of the country’s first PM. In fact, this is the first time that Sonia has responded to a communication from PMML in the wake of allegations that a bulk of these papers, in 51 cartons, was taken by her in 2008. Sonia conveyed that “her staff will look into it”, sources said.
This story is from the December 18, 2025 edition of Financial Express Pune.
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