Nehru Letters Row: Preserving History Or Playing Politics?

The legacy of Nehru has been a political hot-button for a decade now. When it comes to the Prime Ministers' Museum and Library (PMML) itself, it is built on a space that was Nehru's office for several years and also had a museum and memorial dedicated exclusively to him, which the BJP government expanded to include memorials to all the other Prime ministers who have contributed to the country. In the case of the Nehru letters, do they belong to the PMML? Is the family justified in the "ownership, custodianship and copyright" of these papers whose central figure was Jawaharlal Nehru, who is also not just the longest-serving PM but was also the first of Independent India? Is the matter being politicised and is the BJP's demand also a political move to put the Gandhi family in a spot? That is what we ask.