New Delhi: Congress leader and Member of Parliament Jairam Ramesh, in sharp remarks to the Union government over its reply to a question in Lok Sabha that no documents related to India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru were missing from the Prime Ministers Museum and Library (PMML), has asked if an “apology” would be “forthcoming”.In September, a member of the Prime Ministers Museum and Library (PMML) Society, Rizwan Kadri, had said he had written to Congress leader and MP Sonia Gandhi to allow physical or digital access to private papers related to former prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru that, he said, were in her possession.Sharing the government’s reply in the Lok Sabha, Congress general secretary in-charge communications, Jairam Ramesh wrote, “The truth was finally revealed in the Lok Sabha yesterday. Will there be an apology forthcoming?”In a written response to a query in the Lok Sabha by Bharatiya Janata Party MP Sambit Patra, Union Culture Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat had said on December 15 (Monday) that no documents related to the first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, have been found missing from PMML during its annual inspection this year.The minister was asked by Patra whether PMML had “formulated any policy” for an annual audit of the documents available in the museum. “No, there is no annual audit of documents in the Prime Ministers Museum and Library,” Shekhawat said.It was also asked whether “certain documents related to India’s first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, have been found missing” from the museum during the annual inspection in 2025.“No documents related to India’s first Prime Minister, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, have been found missing from the museum during the annual inspection of the PMML in the year 2025,” the reply stated.Asked further whether the said documents were “improperly and illegally removed” from the museum, Shekhawat categorically said, “Does not arise.”The Union minister went onto also say in the Annual General Meeting of the PMML in 2025 that “no decision regarding the non-availability of documents related to Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India, was taken”.Responding to Congress MP Jairam Ramesh, the Union minister wrote on X: “The truth placed before the Lok Sabha is clear and on record. The Nehru Papers were taken out in 2008, during the UPA period, when public institutions were often treated as family preserves. Smt. Sonia Gandhi herself has acknowledged in writing that these papers are with her and promised to “co-operate” on the matter.”“In fact it would be more appropriate for you to urge Sonia Gandhi to honour her commitment and return these papers to PMML so that scholars, citizens, and the Parliament can access these crucial historical records and the truth of “Nehruvian” times can be examined objectively,” he added.PMML, originally called The Nehru Memorial Museum and Library also hosts the Pradhanmantri Sangrahalaya, came into being after Nehru’s demise in 1964, and is now a major repository of papers and documents of independent India.PMML Society is currently helmed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi as president. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh is its vice-president.