Maker of recent India: Congress pays tributes to Jawaharlal Nehru

Nehru’s contributions to the making of recent India are most basic and profound, Ramesh mentioned.

“He stays a supply of nice inspiration to all these dedicated to the thought of an India anchored within the best of its personal composite heritage, an open, liberal and secular democracy with its Constitutional targets of social, financial and political justice, fashionable science and expertise with a scientific mood at its roots and an India that stands unique globally by being uncompromisingly inclusive at dwelling,” Ramesh mentioned.

“For Nehru, democracy and but extra democracy was the oxygen which gave that means to our lives, not demagoguery. He was authoritative with out being authoritarian. He was not simply an impressive public determine who learn, wrote, and formed historical past decisively – maybe extra importantly, , first rate, large-hearted, reflective, and noble human being with no insecurities in anyway which he must overcome with bluffs, brags, and bombasts as we’re seeing each day since 26 Could 2014,” Ramesh mentioned.

For Nehru, India was one and plenty of on the identical time, he mentioned.

Nehru’s whole life was dedicated to deepening that oneness whereas at identical time celebrating the numerous diversities which have outlined India, Ramesh mentioned.

“To reclaim the thought of India that’s now below a lot assault, now we have to reclaim the concepts of Nehru himself,” he mentioned.

“Nehru wrote his will and testomony ten years earlier than he handed away. It’s written in ‘glowing prose’ that’s so very poetic,” he mentioned.

Congress common secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra shared a quote of Nehru on X that – “What we expect at present and what we do, creates tomorrow’s India.”

“Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru dreamed of an India that will transfer ahead with the assistance of science and expertise and compete with the fashionable world. For this, he laid the muse of dozens of instructional, scientific, industrial, technical, social and financial establishments that are the spine of India at present and are strengthening India because the pillar of our progress,” she mentioned in a submit in Hindi on X.

The nation will all the time bear in mind his nice contribution, Priyanka Gandhi mentioned in her tributes to “the maker of recent India”.

The Congress, from its official X deal with, additionally paid tributes to Nehru on his demise anniversary.

“On his demise anniversary, we honour the nation’s first Prime Minister, Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru, whose imaginative and prescient formed fashionable India. His beliefs of democracy, secularism and scientific mood proceed to information our method ahead,” the celebration mentioned.

“Heartfelt tributes to his unmatched legacy and management,” it added.

India’s first and longest-serving prime minister, Nehru, died in workplace in 1964.