NDA Govt to discontinue postage stamps featuring former PM's Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi Wednesday Sep 16,2015

 NDA Government has decided to discontinue stamps of former Prime Ministers, Rajiv and Indira Gandhi, under the new definitive theme of postal stamps.
The NDA Government has replaced Builders of Modern India theme, which included stamps of Indira and Rajiv Gandhi, with Makers of India theme.

The stamps were a part of ‘Builders of Modern India’ series and were launched in December 2008  

Amid a war of words between the Congress and the BJP over the government’s decision to discontinue postage stamps featuring the former Prime Ministers Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi, Union Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said on Wednesday Sep 16,2015 that there was no question of reconsidering the move. 

He said stamps should not focus on just one family but honour everyone who contributed to the making of India. “Our government respects the contribution of all and wants to give them due respect. Based on the advice of the Philatelic Advisory Committee, it was decided to issue a definitive series of stamps to represent the diversity of India

Earlier, in the definitive stamp series, the focus was on the family.” Union Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad told

The revised list will honour Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Sardar Patel, Maulana Azad, Subhas Chandra Bose, Dr. Rajendra Prasad, Jayaprakash Narayan, Bhagat Singh, Deen Dayal Upadhyay, Syama Prasad Mookerjee, Ram Mahohar Lohia, Vivekananda, Rabindranath Tagore, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Maharana Pratap, Shivaji, Mother Teresa and others.