New Delhi, Dec. 16 -- The government on Monday told the Lok Sabha that no documents related to India's first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, were found missing from the Prime Ministers Museum and Library (PMML) in 2025, and that the institution does not carry out an annual audit of its documents, marking a clear shift from the position taken by sections of the PMML leadership earlier this year.

Replying to a starred question by BJP MP Sambit Patra, minister of culture Gajendra Singh Shekhawat said in a written statement that there was "no annual audit of documents" at the PMML and that "no documents related to Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru have been found missing from the museum during the annual inspection of the PMML in the year 2025". The...