Indian govt yet to decide where to keep Gandhi items

PRESIDENT-GANDHI

Sumir Kaul
London, Oct 27 (PTI) Indian government has not yet
decided where it will keep Mahatma Gandhi's memorabilia,
including some rare letters written by him, which will be
received by President of India Pratibha Patil from members of
Indian community here on Wednesday during her ongoing 4-day
state visit.

The decision about where to place them is to be taken by
the Ministry of Human Resource Development but so far there is
no final word on whether the memorabilia -- the letters and a
piece of Khadi cloth woven by the Mahatma -- will be kept in
the National Gandhi Museum or Rashtrapati Bhavan.
When asked about the same, the President told reporters
accompanying her on board her special aircraft that "unhe
sammanpurvak laya jayega...yeh baad mein decide hoga. (These
items will be taken to India with full honour...The decision
on where to keep them will be taken later)."
The President said that receiving these items would be a
"high point" of her visit to the United Kingdom.
Leading NRI entrepreneurs Sir Gulam K Noon and Prof Nat
Puri, who had bought these articles in an auction here in
July, will hand them over to Patil at a function in India
House here Wednesday.
The rare articles comprise three letters written in Urdu
by Gandhi to Maulana Abdul Bari, an Islamic scholar and a
leading figure in the 'Khilafat' movement.
The letters referred to the Hindu-Muslim relations,
including communal tension in Lucknow, and to the personal
friendship of the Mahatma and Maulana. PTI SKL
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