While Congress tweeted video of Nehru’s Tryst with Destiny speech & made no mention of Sardar Patel, PM Modi paid tribute to the latter in his I-Day speech.
Attempts to glorify Sardar Patel are a part of Modi govt’s larger efforts to give due recognition to national 'heroes' outside the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty.
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If Nehru was a mountain, Sardar Patel was a blade of grass. There were far greater leaders than Sardar Patel who received far less recognition like Rajaji, Dr. Pattabhi. Patel’s only qualification was to be born a Gujarati, which was why Modi mentions him. Nehru government unified India. Apart from being minister in charge, old and sick Patel’s contributions were insignificant. Patel’s other advantage was that he died earlier than his comrades and hence later were generous in eulogy.
Can you name one RSS Hindu maha sabha etc hibdutva morons in indipendance movement?
They appropriate leftists like Bose, bhagath Singh and gandhians like Patel .
Can they tell us why a brilliant RAjaji was not made President by the rightist conspiracy .
How many gujrathis are in army all these years?
What is modis contribution to Indian economy which is in doldrums.
Congressmen are idiots who cannot project themselves while traitors are projecting themselves in today’s India.
Yes .who ever is anti Gandhi anti constitution and anti Nehru is a traitor.
The unwillingness of the Congress party to provide space or recognition to anyone outside the original Gandhi and the subsequent Nehru Dynasty has come as a godsend to the BJP. They are free to claim and highlight every other stalwart of the independence movement.
Congress peddled a million lies on the country, all in the name of it’s first family. Every town in the country has Nehru statues. Almost every institution, airport and major project was named after Nehru. It was a deliberate and calculated effort to infiltrate the minds of Indians with Nehru’s exclusive greatness. All to cover up his monumental failures as a leader of a young nation and to manufacture a false narrative. Let this be a lesson to future megalomaniacs and their chamchas – truth always catches up, sooner or later.
370 has become another toll for political slugfast. The article may have been required when then Maharaja reluctantly opted to annex JK with India m. Both Nehruji and Patelji are not alive, so present day leaders should stop using them to create a divide. If we continue like this we don’t need Pakistan
BJP Scoundrels are not having any to leader to name from india’s independence movement that is why usurping people from congress the same way they usurp people from other parties everyday in the new india. What they have done to goa and Karnataka MLAs is the best example. They cannot develop any one from their party. They lack vision moral etc.
And yet the Mood of the Nation survey by India Today, disclosed yesterday, shows ever increasing support for BJP and decimation of almost all opposition parties. What does this say about the quality of Opposition leadership, including Shri Rahul Gandhi?
Sometimes we are thrown history that only few people got our independence from Britishers. Some theorists still believe that British walked out on their own as WWII took toll on them and started leaving their colonies. Congress as a party brow beats on only two candidate Gandhi (original) and Nehru. Then legacy of Gandhi original was transferred to Frroz to look Indira is also Gandhi clan, apart from Nehru clan. Congress as party never give credit to any past Presidents of the party outside the Nehru clan (the can added Gandhi name later). In the process they lost narration about Gokhale, Subash Chandra Bose, Abul Kalam Azad, Bapu Rajendra Prasad, PV Narasimha Rao and the last one outside Gandhi family being Sitaram Kesari. Since then it is a domain of Italian family to manage with Gandhi surname. No reprising that other people have targeted to lift few Congressis into their fold. End of the day, lots of water has moved in Ganges and Brahmaputra and these history of who did what has no relevance today.
India’s independence was great teamwork. By NOT acknowledging these personalities, both sides are showing their narrow-mindedness. Most of all it is the Congress which is reinforcing its dynastic psyche because BJP has always acted rebellious on these issues.
Having said that, the argument ‘what if Patel had become the PM?’ should be buried. These kinds of ‘what-if’ arguments could be stretched further back in history with the question ‘what if Dara Shikoh – the great Mughal liberal and Sanskrit scholar – had become the Emperor of India instead of his extremely right-wing brother Aurangzeb?’
One is not sure there are any sparks left in these ashes of history, long turned cold and lifeless. Not one parliamentary seat today could turn on either Pandit Nehru or his deputy. As for Kashmir, however it came to be the jewel in our crown, we should look to the future, to the happiness, prosperity and well being of its people. Not seen through rolls of concertina wire. Downtown Srinagar itself has a shabby, worn out look, not Zurich or even Davos. Perhaps one reason we turn so often to the past is because we are unable to create the future India is capable of. When Unnao and Kathua happen so often, what is the relevance of debates in the Constituent Assembly.
No party, neither Congress nor BJP owns Nehru, Patel or Gandhi. They are our National treasure.
You can’t snatch anything from anyone who doesn’t own it. Nor can you own anything which was never yours.
If Nehru was a mountain, Sardar Patel was a blade of grass. There were far greater leaders than Sardar Patel who received far less recognition like Rajaji, Dr. Pattabhi. Patel’s only qualification was to be born a Gujarati, which was why Modi mentions him. Nehru government unified India. Apart from being minister in charge, old and sick Patel’s contributions were insignificant. Patel’s other advantage was that he died earlier than his comrades and hence later were generous in eulogy.
Can you name one RSS Hindu maha sabha etc hibdutva morons in indipendance movement?
They appropriate leftists like Bose, bhagath Singh and gandhians like Patel .
Can they tell us why a brilliant RAjaji was not made President by the rightist conspiracy .
How many gujrathis are in army all these years?
What is modis contribution to Indian economy which is in doldrums.
Congressmen are idiots who cannot project themselves while traitors are projecting themselves in today’s India.
Yes .who ever is anti Gandhi anti constitution and anti Nehru is a traitor.
The unwillingness of the Congress party to provide space or recognition to anyone outside the original Gandhi and the subsequent Nehru Dynasty has come as a godsend to the BJP. They are free to claim and highlight every other stalwart of the independence movement.
Congress peddled a million lies on the country, all in the name of it’s first family. Every town in the country has Nehru statues. Almost every institution, airport and major project was named after Nehru. It was a deliberate and calculated effort to infiltrate the minds of Indians with Nehru’s exclusive greatness. All to cover up his monumental failures as a leader of a young nation and to manufacture a false narrative. Let this be a lesson to future megalomaniacs and their chamchas – truth always catches up, sooner or later.
Tweeting Nehru’s speech is not going to help Congis.
At issue is RaGa being (1) complete anti National traitor, India hater and 2) stupid
Nehru, Indira, Rajiv were patriots. They all would be ashamed to note RaGa is a traitor and speaks for Lashkar e Taiba.
370 has become another toll for political slugfast. The article may have been required when then Maharaja reluctantly opted to annex JK with India m. Both Nehruji and Patelji are not alive, so present day leaders should stop using them to create a divide. If we continue like this we don’t need Pakistan
BJP Scoundrels are not having any to leader to name from india’s independence movement that is why usurping people from congress the same way they usurp people from other parties everyday in the new india. What they have done to goa and Karnataka MLAs is the best example. They cannot develop any one from their party. They lack vision moral etc.
And yet the Mood of the Nation survey by India Today, disclosed yesterday, shows ever increasing support for BJP and decimation of almost all opposition parties. What does this say about the quality of Opposition leadership, including Shri Rahul Gandhi?
Sometimes we are thrown history that only few people got our independence from Britishers. Some theorists still believe that British walked out on their own as WWII took toll on them and started leaving their colonies. Congress as a party brow beats on only two candidate Gandhi (original) and Nehru. Then legacy of Gandhi original was transferred to Frroz to look Indira is also Gandhi clan, apart from Nehru clan. Congress as party never give credit to any past Presidents of the party outside the Nehru clan (the can added Gandhi name later). In the process they lost narration about Gokhale, Subash Chandra Bose, Abul Kalam Azad, Bapu Rajendra Prasad, PV Narasimha Rao and the last one outside Gandhi family being Sitaram Kesari. Since then it is a domain of Italian family to manage with Gandhi surname. No reprising that other people have targeted to lift few Congressis into their fold. End of the day, lots of water has moved in Ganges and Brahmaputra and these history of who did what has no relevance today.
India’s independence was great teamwork. By NOT acknowledging these personalities, both sides are showing their narrow-mindedness. Most of all it is the Congress which is reinforcing its dynastic psyche because BJP has always acted rebellious on these issues.
Having said that, the argument ‘what if Patel had become the PM?’ should be buried. These kinds of ‘what-if’ arguments could be stretched further back in history with the question ‘what if Dara Shikoh – the great Mughal liberal and Sanskrit scholar – had become the Emperor of India instead of his extremely right-wing brother Aurangzeb?’
One is not sure there are any sparks left in these ashes of history, long turned cold and lifeless. Not one parliamentary seat today could turn on either Pandit Nehru or his deputy. As for Kashmir, however it came to be the jewel in our crown, we should look to the future, to the happiness, prosperity and well being of its people. Not seen through rolls of concertina wire. Downtown Srinagar itself has a shabby, worn out look, not Zurich or even Davos. Perhaps one reason we turn so often to the past is because we are unable to create the future India is capable of. When Unnao and Kathua happen so often, what is the relevance of debates in the Constituent Assembly.