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Know whereabouts of Nehru papers, says govt amid speculation

Hindustan Times Chandigarh

December 18, 2025

FOLLOWING THE CLARIFICATION BY THE CULTURE MINISTER, CONG LEADER JAIRAM RAMESH ASKED WHETHER THE GOVT WILL ISSUE AN APOLOGY

- Vrinda Tulsian

The Union culture ministry on Wednesday issued a clarification through its official X account stating that no papers related to India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, are missing from the Prime Ministers Museum and Library (PMML), because it knows their "whereabouts".

The reference is to 51 cartons of papers transferred by the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library to Sonia Gandhi, the UPA chairperson, in 2008.

This story is from the December 18, 2025 edition of Hindustan Times Chandigarh.

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