Overview
- At the launch of the Nehru Centre India in New Delhi, Sonia Gandhi alleged a coordinated project to demean Jawaharlal Nehru with the aim of dismantling the social, political and economic foundations he helped build.
- She linked the campaign to an ideology she said had no role in the freedom struggle or the Constitution and that, in her telling, once fostered the hate that preceded Mahatma Gandhi’s assassination.
- Gandhi urged citizens to confront the effort, calling a robust defence of Nehru a commitment to restore constitutional values and protect reason from propaganda.
- The event unveiled nehruarchive.in, a free, searchable and downloadable collection of 100 published volumes of Nehru’s Selected Works covering 1903 to the day before his death, accessible on smartphones.
- The BJP countered by attacking Nehru’s legacy as full of “historical blunders,” citing Article 370, a UN Security Council seat for China and territorial losses, and pressed Sonia Gandhi for answers.