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Congress Parliamentary Party (CPP) chairperson Sonia Gandhi connected Friday (December 5, 2025) accused the ruling constitution of carrying retired a deliberate task to vilify Jawaharlal Nehru, saying the purpose is not lone to erase India’s archetypal Prime Minister from nationalist representation but to “destroy the social, governmental and economical foundations” helium helped build.
Speaking astatine the motorboat of the Nehru Centre India astatine Jawahar Bhawan, the CPP chairperson said a “systematic effort” was underway to distort Nehru’s ideas and undermine his publication to the state question and the shaping of modern India.
“Let determination beryllium nary uncertainty whatsoever that the task to vilify Jawaharlal Nehru is the main nonsubjective of the ruling constitution today. Their extremity is not conscionable to erase him; it is really to destruct the social, political, and economical foundations connected which our federation has been founded and built,” Ms. Gandhi said.
She asserted that Nehru was the premier designer of the modern Indian nation-state, who had a steadfast content successful planned economical maturation and a profound committedness to the improvement of technological temper and technological and technological capabilities.
“To him, secularism — successful which helium firmly believed — meant supra each the solemnisation of India’s galore diversities portion strengthening its cardinal unity,” Ms. Gandhi said.
‘Deliberate mischief’
Critique of humanities figures is legitimate, she noted, but “deliberate mischief” with Nehru’s words and actions is unacceptable. According to Ms. Gandhi, those driving this run subscribe to an ideology that “had nary relation successful the state struggle, nary relation successful drafting the Constitution, and adjacent burnt it”.
“It is an ideology that agelong agone fanned an ambiance of hatred that yet led to the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi. His killers contiguous proceed to beryllium glorified by its adherents. It is an ideology which has consistently rejected the ideals of our founding fathers. It is an ideology with a bigoted and viciously communal outlook. Its attack to nationhood is based connected stoking prejudices of each kinds,” Ms. Gandhi noted.
Defending Nehru’s legacy, she argued, is not an workout successful nostalgia. “It is simply a committedness to restoring India’s law promise, safeguarding crushed from propaganda, and ensuring that our republic remains modern and forward-looking,” she said.
Ms. Gandhi besides praised the Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund’s motorboat of a caller integer archive containing each 100 published volumes of Nehru’s selected works — afloat searchable and freely accessible, including connected smartphones.
