At the heart of the Congress’s new headquarters, Indira Bhawan on Kotla Marg, stands a striking tribute to the former PM, the Manmohan Singh Research and Library.

Inaugurated on September 26 by Sonia Gandhi, in the presence of Dr Singh’s wife Gursharan Kaur, Mallikarjun Kharge and Rahul Gandhi, the library has steadily taken shape as one of the most significant additions to the party headquarters.

The party has tried to make it more than a collection of books. It aims to transform the library into a carefully built archive of Indian politics that reflects the party’s history as well as as the intellectual ethos of the Dr Singh.

From party manifestoes since 1951 to rare photographs of the Constituent Assembly, the space attempts to capture the arc of India’s political journey. Its shelve

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