The director of the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library is governed by civil service rules, the museum has said, putting in the glare Mridula Mukherjee, its director, who was one of the historians to work for the Congress.
The reply to the Right to Information panel by the museum stated that all the employees were governed by the Central Civil Services (Conduct) rules.
The rules cited by the museum prohibit “any government official from being a member of, or be otherwise associated with, any political party or any organisation which takes part in politics nor shall he take part in, subscribe in aid of, or assist in any other manner, any political movement or activity”.
The reply also clarified that Mukherjee, the museum’s present director, was on the editorial board of The Congress and the Making of the Indian Nation, a history of the party published on its 125th anniversary.