NEHRU WAS THE GREAT ARCHITECT OF MODERN INDIA BUT HIS IMAGE IS BEING DISTORTED, DEMEANED AND DEFAMED SAY CONGRESS LEADERS

The senior Congress leaders while paying their richest tributes to the first prime Minister of India Jawahar Lal Nehru on his birth anniversary termed him as the architect of modern leader, a great visionary, statesman , a true symbol of freedom, progress, justice, eminent thinker and true statesman.

The former Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, the Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, Treasurer Ajay Maken, the senior most general secretary looking after the organisation K. C. Venugopal and several leaders went to Shanti Van and paid their richest tributes. Several senior leaders paid their respects to the legendary first prime minister by writing their feelings on the social media platform X viz Mallikarjun Kharge, Jai Ram Ramesh, Rahul Gandhi and the Congress party. The prime minister Narendra Modi also paid his tributes through a message on X writing : Tributes to our first prime Minister Jawahar Lal Nehruji on his birth anniversary. The president of Congress party veteran leader Mallikarjun Kharge while paying his respects to the iconic leader of freedom movement and first prime Minister Jawahar Lal Nehru expressed his feelings for this legendary leader, free on fighter and great visionary writing : Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru was the prime architect of modern India.

In his understanding , only a Democratic structure which gave space to various cultural, political, and socio-economic trends to express themselves could hold India together.

Today, as we gather in Shanti Van, to pay our revered tributes to him, we must preserve, protect and defend India’s Constitution and our long-cherished Democratic institutions and principles — his enduring legacy. The former Congress chief and MP from Wayanad. Kerala Rahul Gandhi while paying this tributes wrote on X : Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru is a thought – of freedom, progress, justice. Mother India today needs these values ​​of her ‘Jawahar of Hind’, like an ideology, in every heart.

The senior Congress leader and AICC’ s Communication Department chief Jairam Ramesh paid tributes to the first prime minister but also criticised the present ruling political dispensation for devaluing the great legendary freedom fighter and the first prime minister of the country. In his first messages on X he wrote :

Today is the 134th birth anniversary of Jawahar Lal Nehru, the ‘gentle great man’ who decisively shaped modern India.

While his legacy lives on and resonates around us, the self-proclaimed ‘World Guru’ and his trumpeters are doing everything possible to deny the great contribution of Nehruji and distort, harm, humiliate and defame him. Keep trying.

This understanding of Nehru by the eminent literary critic, poet and scholar Namvar Singh, first published in 1989, remains relevant and significant even today.

Today is the 134th birth anniversary of Jawaharlal Nehru, the ‘gentle colossus’ who shaped 20th century India so very decisively. His legacy lives on and he continues to resonate in numerous ways, even as the self-styled Vishwaguru and his drum-beaters do their worst to deny his monumental contributions and distort, damage, denigrate, demean and defame him.

Today, as the nation awaits India’s victory in the cricket World Cup final five days hence, let us recall Nehru the cricketer.

On September 12th and 13th, 1953 the Prime Minister’s XI played a two-day match against the Vice President’s XI in New Delhi to raise funds for flood relief in different states. Nehru was on the field throughout. He bowled, fielded and batted and the newspaper The Hindu had a lovely account of this match which I am attaching at this link— https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Bo69shx8DrMFUivukr2m0tcwaNciMRGV/view?usp=drivesdk

Jai Ram Ramesh further added that Nehru found time to speak on the radio for a few minutes while the game was on. Later, he served as the auctioneer selling off cricket bats and score books presented to him in November 1948 by the West Indies and Indian cricket teams that had just played a test match in Delhi then, and also by the Commonwealth and Indian cricket teams that had played a test match in February 1951 in Kanpur.

Fortunately, what he said on both occasions in Hindi was captured for posterity. They make for wonderful reading even today wrote Ramesh on X.