Jawaharlal Nehru birth anniversary: Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid homage to India’s first PM Jawaharlal Nehru on his birth anniversary on Thursday. “On the occasion of his birth anniversary, I pay homage to our former Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru,” Modi said in a post on X.
Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Gandhi also paid homage to Pandit Nehru and said that India will always remain on the “democratic, progressive, fearless, visionary, inclusive” values of Jawaharlal Nehru.
“Respectful salutation to the father of modern India, creator of institutions, first Prime Minister of India, Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru ji on his birth anniversary. Democratic, progressive, fearless, visionary, inclusive – these values of ‘Jewish of India’ are our ideals and the pillars of Hindustan and will always remain so,” in said in an X post.
Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge also paid tribute to the nation’s first Prime Minister and remembered his “unprecedented contribution” towards the country and shared an excerpt from ‘The Discovery of India’.
Paying “respectful salutations” to former PM Jawaharlal Nehru, Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra said that he was the one who always taught the public to be “fearless’ and “serve selflessly,” while on the other hand, he kept the public supreme at every stage of nation building.
“Fear is the root of all evil in the world.” When we achieved independence after decades of struggle and innumerable sacrifices, even then there were people who used to play politics of scaring and misleading the innocent public. Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru ji strongly opposed them and told the common people – “Do not be afraid!” People who spread fear among the public cannot be true representatives of the public. Public servants stand in the forefront with their heads held high so that people can live without fear. Pandit Nehru always taught the public to be fearless and serve selflessly, while on the other hand he kept the public supreme at every stage of nation-building. Respectful salute to the creator of modern India,” Priyanka Gandhi Vadra posted on X.
Jawaharlal Nehru was an Indian anti-colonial nationalist, secular humanist, social democrat, author and statesman who was a central figure in India during the middle of the 20th century. Nehru was second only to Mahatma Gandhi in leading the Indian nationalist movement in the 1930s and 1940s. Upon India’s independence from Britain in 1947, he served as the country’s first prime minister for 16 years. Nehru championed parliamentary democracy, secularism, science and technology during the 1950s, influencing India’s arc as a modern nation. In international affairs, he is well-known as one of the Founders of the Non-aligned Movement and, concomitantly, for steering India clear of the two blocs of the Cold War. A coveted author, the books he wrote in prison, such as Letters from a Father to His Daughter (1929), An Autobiography (1936) and The Discovery of India (1946), have been read and deliberated upon around the world. (Source : Wikipedia)
