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How Nehru reacted on being declared as ‘Tenth Avatar’ of Lord Vishnu !!
On 3rd August 1959, Y. B. Chavan, the Chief Minister of Bombay, told the Bombay Legislative Assembly that there was a Shri Jawahar Shakti Mandal at Dabhoda village in Ider Taluka of Sabarkanta District (now in Gujarat). This body of village folks was worshiping Jawaharlal Nehru as the ‘tenth avatar’. This incident was reported by…
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What India Would Have Been Without Nehru
By Manoj Joshi Trying to erase Nehru’s imprint on the country is a tall order because he is part of modern India’s DNA. Throw Nehru out of the equation and you end up undermining India. Writing in the Sunday Times of India, Amulya Gopalakrishnan recently brought out the huge Nehru vilification industry that exists across…
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Jawaharlal will be my successor…
Do not please go away with the idea that there is a rift in the Congress. The working committee has worked like members of a happy family. Somebody suggested that Pandit Jawaharlal and I were estranged. It will require much more than the differences of opinion to estrange us.
We have had differences from the moment we became co-workers, and yet I have said for some years and say now that not Rajaji but Jawaharlal will be my successor.
He says he does not understand my language, and that he speaks a language foreign to me. This may or may not be true. But language is no bar to a union of hearts. And I know this that when I am gone, he will speak my language.
Mahatma Gandhi
AICC Meet, Wardha, 1942