Overview
- Sonia Gandhi said a coordinated project seeks not only to erase Jawaharlal Nehru but to dismantle the social, political and economic foundations he built.
- Speaking at the launch of The Nehru Centre India at Jawahar Bhawan in New Delhi, she described a systematic effort to denigrate, distort, demean and defame Nehru.
- She argued the campaign is driven by an ideology she said had no role in the freedom struggle or in writing the Constitution and that glorifies Mahatma Gandhi’s killers.
- Gandhi characterized Nehru as the principal architect of the modern Indian state who championed planned economic growth, scientific temper and secularism.
- She praised a new Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund digital archive of 100 volumes of Nehru’s selected works, describing it as fully searchable and freely accessible on smartphones, and no government response was reported by the outlets.