The Congress on Thursday hit back at BJP leader Sudhanshu Trivedi over his claims that former prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru opposed the association of then president Rajendra Prasad with the Somnath temple, and said Nehru was ”completely transparent”. Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh said, ”Sudanshu Trivedi has apparently waved some letters on air — of Pandit Nehru on the Somnath Temple. These and many other letters of Nehru, including to then Home Minister Rajaji and President Rajendra Prasad, are all in the public domain and form part of Vol 16-I of the Second Series of the Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru available online at http://nehruselectedworks.com.” ”Contrary to what Trivedi claims these constitute no great revelation. Nehru was completely transparent and left behind written records — written by him personally. Here is some correspondence on the subject that Mr. Trivedi did not exhibit,” Ramesh said in a post on X while sharing the letters.
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