<p>In a politically-significant move, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today reconstituted a government committee on commemoration of the 125th birth anniversary of Jawaharlal Nehru which will be headed by him, replacing his predecessor Manmohan Singh.<br /><br /></p>.<p>However, it includes some Congress leaders -- Ghulam Nabi Azad, Mallikarjun Kharge and Karan Singh. But none from the Gandhi family finds a place in it.<br /><br />The first meeting of the National Committee to Commemorate 125th Birth Anniversary of India's first Prime Minister will be held soon after Diwali, a PMO statement said.<br />Nehru's 125th birth anniversary falls on November 14 this year.<br /><br />The reconstituted committee has Modi as Chairman while Home Minister Rajnath Singh, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, HRD Minister Smriti Irani, I&B Minister Prakash Javadekar and Culture Minister Sripad Yesso Naik will be its ex-officio members.<br /><br />Azad, Leader of the Opposition in Rajya Sabha, and Kharge, Leader of Congress in Lok Sabha, will be members, along with Madhya Pradesh Governor Ram Naresh Yadav, former Sikkim Governor B P Singh, former Foreign Secretary M K Rasgotra and former Lok Sabha Secretary General Subhash Kashyap.<br /><br />Senior Congress leader Karan Singh and Suman Dubey, considered close to Nehru-Gandhi family, are also members of the committee along with former Cabinet Secretary Naresh Chandra.<br /><br />Senior journalists Rajat Sharma, Swapan Dasgupta and M J. Akbar have also been made its members. The Committee was set up during the previous UPA government and was headed by Manmohan Singh.<br /><br />Its members were Congress President Sonia Gandhi, the then Defence Minister A K Antony, the then Finance Minister P. Chidambaram, the then Law Minister Kapil Sibal besides a number of scholars and academicians of repute from various Institutions.<br /><br />The committee was set up to ensure that the anniversary is celebrated in a befitting manner as a tribute to the great leader and an architect of modern India.</p>
<p>In a politically-significant move, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today reconstituted a government committee on commemoration of the 125th birth anniversary of Jawaharlal Nehru which will be headed by him, replacing his predecessor Manmohan Singh.<br /><br /></p>.<p>However, it includes some Congress leaders -- Ghulam Nabi Azad, Mallikarjun Kharge and Karan Singh. But none from the Gandhi family finds a place in it.<br /><br />The first meeting of the National Committee to Commemorate 125th Birth Anniversary of India's first Prime Minister will be held soon after Diwali, a PMO statement said.<br />Nehru's 125th birth anniversary falls on November 14 this year.<br /><br />The reconstituted committee has Modi as Chairman while Home Minister Rajnath Singh, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, HRD Minister Smriti Irani, I&B Minister Prakash Javadekar and Culture Minister Sripad Yesso Naik will be its ex-officio members.<br /><br />Azad, Leader of the Opposition in Rajya Sabha, and Kharge, Leader of Congress in Lok Sabha, will be members, along with Madhya Pradesh Governor Ram Naresh Yadav, former Sikkim Governor B P Singh, former Foreign Secretary M K Rasgotra and former Lok Sabha Secretary General Subhash Kashyap.<br /><br />Senior Congress leader Karan Singh and Suman Dubey, considered close to Nehru-Gandhi family, are also members of the committee along with former Cabinet Secretary Naresh Chandra.<br /><br />Senior journalists Rajat Sharma, Swapan Dasgupta and M J. Akbar have also been made its members. The Committee was set up during the previous UPA government and was headed by Manmohan Singh.<br /><br />Its members were Congress President Sonia Gandhi, the then Defence Minister A K Antony, the then Finance Minister P. Chidambaram, the then Law Minister Kapil Sibal besides a number of scholars and academicians of repute from various Institutions.<br /><br />The committee was set up to ensure that the anniversary is celebrated in a befitting manner as a tribute to the great leader and an architect of modern India.</p>