Congress president Sonia Gandhi with former prime minister Manmohan Singh after paying tributes to first prime minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru on his 53rd death anniversary at Sha...
President Pranab Mukhgerjee with Congress president Sonia Gandhi attends a prayer meeting after paying tributes to first prime minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru on his 53rd death an...
Congress party workers pay homage to former Prime Minister late Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru on his 53rd death anniversary at Anand Bhawan, in Allahabad.
Subhash Chandra Bose (centre left) and Jawaharlal Nehru
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Children pay tribute at Anand Bhawan, the ancestral home of India's first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru on his 52nd death anniversary in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh.
Congress President Sonia Gandhi pays tributes to the first Prime Minister late Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru on his 52nd death anniversary at Shanti Van in New Delhi.
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B.R. Ambedkar being sworn in Union law minister in Nehru’s cabinet
Ladakh, 1963 Prime Minister Nehru, defence minister Y.B Chavan with army commanders
Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh at the function to commemorate the closing ceremony of 125th birth anniversary of Pt Jawaharlal Nehru in New Delhi.
President Pranab Mukherjee paying floral tributes at the Samadhi of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru to Commemorate his 125th Birth Anniversary.
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Congress President Sonia Gandhi after paying tribute to the first Prime Minister late Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru on his 51st death anniversary at Shanti Van, in New Delhi.
President Pranab Mukherjee pays tribute to the first Prime Minister late Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru on his 51st death anniversary at Shanti Van, in New Delhi.
Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress President Sonia Gandhi after paying tribute to the first Prime Minister late Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru on his 51st death anniversary ...
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May 27 was Nehru's 45th death anniversary. Inder Malhotra remembers the day in 1964 in the Indian Express:
Hafeez Jullundari — the nearest thing Pakistan had to the poet laureate as well as a sort of minister-in-waiting during the Sheikh’s stay — stalked up to our table and sat down. Wagging his finger, he told me: “Inder Malhotra, you people have had a long ride feeling superior to us because you were lucky to have Nehru. Our misfortune was that after the early deaths of Jinnah and Liaquat, all our leaders were useless. Now Nehru is about to go. You will be down to our level, and then we will see”....
...[Nehru] died at the precise moment when the Sheikh [Abdullah] set foot in Muzaffarabad. The thought uppermost in my mind was that the capital of Pakistan-held Kashmir was not the best place to to be in at the time of Nehru’s passing. But what followed stunned me.
The huge crowd that had assembled to welcome Sheikh Abdullah instantly turned into a mourning mass. Every man, woman and child, hands raised skywards, was praying for Nehru. Some of them were crying. No one touched the elaborate wazwan laid out. Suddenly, there was commotion at a short distance. A tall man was shouting my name, beating his head with both his hands and cursing his “black tongue”. It was Hafeez Jullundari. As he apologised to me profusely, Sheikh Sahib arrived to calm him. Instead, the two embraced each other and sobbed.
Read the full piece at the Indian Express
Inder Malhotra looks back on the first general election in the Indian Express:
Nehru got greatly depressed. What “filled him with dismay” was the selection of Congress candidates that he described as “disgusting”. What got his goat were the “cliques”, “bossism”, the “scramble” and “lack of organisation”... To Edwina Mountbatten he wrote: “More and more I hate this election business, more especially the choosing of candidates... ” ... that the Congress could hardly talk of principles when so many of its members were “snarling” for selection and “third-rate individuals were being chosen on grounds of caste and sub-caste. I have felt recently as if I was in a den of wild animals”.
...Looking back at newspaper headlines of January 1952, I am startled to discover that some of them are still with us, albeit with greater frequency and intensity. A few samples in point are “Congress Banks on Muslim Support”; “Caste Rivalries Weaken Bihar Congress”; “List of Nominees Causes Wider Split”. “Autonomy Demand in Manipur”. “Ministers Face Stiff Opposition” and so on. Sadly, one headline, ubiquitous then, we are unlikely to see all too often is “Polling Was Peaceful”. +
Read the full piece: The First Vote Cast
