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Mounting a scathing onslaught connected Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who has surpassed Jawaharlal Nehru’s grounds of being the longest serving elected Prime Minister, the Congress connected Wednesday (June 10, 2026) said Mr. Modi had a “Nehru fixation” and accused Mr. Modi of “presiding implicit the execution of ideology successful India”.
In a station connected societal media level X, Congress wide caput (communication) Jairam Ramesh charged the Modi authorities of “dubiously inventing a milestone”, referring to the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) solemnisation of Mr. Modi upon his becoming the longest serving elected Prime Minister.
Comparing Nehru’s tenure with that of Mr. Modi, Mr. Ramesh said Nehru had presided implicit a stellar Cabinet successful 1947, which laid the instauration for a modern India.
“The 1947-52 grounds of achievements of India with Nehru arsenic PM, and successful which stalwarts similar Sardar Patel, Dr. Ambedkar, Dr. Rajendra Prasad, C. Rajagopalachari, and Maulana Abul Kalam Azad played specified a pivotal role, is present sought to beryllium erased by Mr. Modi, who has a pathological fixation connected Nehru,” Mr. Ramesh said successful his post.
“He whitethorn person passed a self-proclaimed and dubiously invented milestone today, but helium is simply a millstone astir India’s neck, presiding arsenic helium is implicit the Murder of Democracy successful India,” the Congress person added.
Listing retired the achievements of the archetypal Nehru Cabinet, Mr. Ramesh said 560 princely states were integrated peacefully into the Indian Union, the Constitution of India was debated and adopted, zamindari was abolished, reservations for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes were enactment successful place, multipurpose irrigation-cum-power projects were launched, infrastructure for subject and exertion capableness (including successful atomic energy) was established, and India emerged “as a unit successful planetary affairs”.
“Electoral rolls bearing 170 cardinal registered voters were prepared to guarantee cosmopolitan big franchise and escaped India’s archetypal General Elections were held betwixt October 1951 and February 1952. The precise aforesaid establishments of ideology - an autarkic Election Commission and a sacrosanct elector database - are present threatened,” Mr. Ramesh said.
Scientific temper has been erased done the demolition of Indian acquisition institutions arsenic “exposed by the caller NEET-CBSE scandals”; and reservations for Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, and Other Backward Classes had been weakened done privatisation and different means, helium alleged.
“And portion Nehru won successful 1952, 1957, and 1962 with a hugely decisive majority, Mr. Modi did NOT unafraid adjacent a elemental bulk by a sizeable borderline successful 2024 and had to hurriedly convene a NDA gathering bypassing the BJP Parliamentary Party to anoint himself arsenic PM. 2024 was astir surely not a mandate for Him,” Mr. Ramesh said.
