NEW DELHI: Congress on Sunday lashed out alleging that “maximum Nehru defamation, and minimum democratic governance” is “Mr Modi’s model”.
The Congress attack on PM Narendra Modi came a day after his speech during the debate on the Constitution in Lok Sabha. Congress general secretary in-charge of communications, Jairam Ramesh in a post on X asked what would the PM do without Nehru.
“Nehru is necessary to distract the nation’s attention from his own failures. Nehru is necessary to divert the nation’s attention from current challenges on which he maintains a complete silence,” Ramesh said.
“French philosopher Voltaire had said that if God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him. For our self-anointed divinity – if Nehru had not existed – it would have been necessary to invent him,” he added.
On PM Modi’s attack in his speech on first PM Jawaharlal Nehru over amending the Constitution through an ordinance to put curbs on freedom of press in 1951, Jairam Ramesh in another post explained why the first amendment to the Constitution was brought.
He said it was done for three reasons: “One, to deal with communal propaganda at a most sensitive time. Two, to protect zamindari abolition laws that were being struck down by the courts. Three, to protect reservations in education and employment for SCs, STs, and OBCs that had been rejected by the courts.”
“Granville Austin’s masterly ‘Working A Democratic Constitution’ tells the full story of the amendments carried out till 1980. Is it too much to expect of MAs in ‘Entire Political Science’ or his cheerleaders to have read it?” Ramesh said, adding, “Nehru was necessary to deny the nation’s many achievements before May 2014.”