The BJP has demanded the Congress party release letters written by Jawaharlal Nehru to Edwina Mountbatten and others, which were allegedly withdrawn from the Nehru Memorial Library in 2008 on Sonia Gandhi's orders. A library member, Rizwan Kadri, has requested Rahul Gandhi's intervention after receiving no response from Sonia Gandhi.
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