November 3, 2018:

The term of the new members will be till 25 April 2020.

Arnab Goswami, Republic TV managing director is among the people who have replaced four members of the Nehru Memorial Museum & Library (NMML) society who were critical of the government’s decision to set up a museum for all prime ministers in New Delhi’s Teen Murti complex.

As per Economic Times, the Centre approved the membership of Goswami, former Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP & president of the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) Vinay Sahasrabuddhe, & chairman of the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts Ram Bahadur Rai.

In a 29th October notification, the Union Ministry of Culture also accepted the resignation of academic Pratap Bhanu Mehta. Besides Mehta, the names that have been removed from the society include economist Nitin Desai, professor Udayan Mishra & former bureaucrat BP Singh.

Singh & Mishra, both had protested against the Centre’s decision questioning the location & expressing their concern over how a museum to all PMs could make states set up museums for all their Chief Ministers.

Notification states that the changes & acceptance of resignation has been made with the approval of the Prime Minister.

While slamming the move, Congress leader Jairam Ramesh told The Economic Times that the four members who have been replaced were men of integrity & scholarship.

In August this year, former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to leave Teen Murti Bhavan “undisturbed”.

A strongly-worded letter written to the PM, Singh wrote that the NMML is dedicated to the memory of India’s first Prime Minister a& “prime architect of the Indian nation-state” & warned that “no amount of revisionism can obliterate” the role & contributions of the former Indian PM “who left behind an indelible imprint on our country & indeed on the world”.

In the month of September, the Directorate of Estates of the Union Ministry of Urban Development asked the Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund to vacate the Teen Murti Bhavan. The order was stayed by the Delhi High Court on 1 November.

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