Prime Minister announced that
he will head the National Committee to commemorate the 125th birth anniversary
of India
No one from the Nehru-Gandhi
family is a part of the committee that includes six Cabinet Ministers as
ex-officio members including the Home, Finance, External Affairs, HRD, Culture
and I&B Ministers. Congress leaders in Parliament Ghulam Nabi Azad,
Mallikarjun Kharge, MPs Karan Singh and Maulana Mohammad Madani (MPs) are on
the committee.
B.P. Singh, former Governor,
Sikkim, Ram Naresh Yadav, Governor of Madhya Pradesh, former Foreign Secretary
M.K. Rasgotra, former Lok Sabha Secretary General Subash Kashyap, Lokesh
Chandra, journalist Suman Dubey, former Cabinet Secretary Naresh Chandra, Prof
Madhavan Palat, Editor, Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru, Jawaharlal Nehru
Memorial Trust, New Delhi, Chandrasekhar Dasgupta of The Energy & Resources
Institute, New Delhi, Nasir Tyabji, former Fellow of the Jawaharlal Nehru Trust
and Senior Fellow, NMML, New Delhi are on the committee.
On October 2, Gandhi Jayanti,
Mr. Modi launched the Clean India campaign by invoking Mahatma Gandhi. He has
announced another phase of the Clean India campaign from November 14 (Nehru’s
birth anniversary) to November 19 (Indira Gandhi’s birth anniversary).
Others on the committee
include Vice-Admiral K K Nayyar, former diplomat C R Gharekhan, former Army
chief Gen V P Malik, Pratap Bhanu Mehta of the Centre for Policy Research,
journalists Rajat Sharma and Swapan Dasgupta, M J Akbar of the BJP, former
Uttarakhand Governor Sudarshan Agarwal, the Director General of National
Archives of India and Ravindra Singh, Secretary Ministry of Culture, who will
be the Member-Secretary.
Not a single member from the
Gandhi-Nehru family is in the panel. Congress chief Sonia Gandhi had resigned
from the earlier Committee setup during the UPA-II tenure after the Lok Sabha
poll defeat.
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