On Nehru and History, Modi Has Much To Learn From Vajpayee and Advani by Sudheendra Kulkarni https://www.thequint.com/voices/opinion/on-nehru-and-history-modi-has-much-to-learn-from-vajpayee-and-advani The two BJP leaders, going past the political divide, admired Nehru. But Modi doesn’t care about facts or history.
Published: 03 Sep 2021
ICHR’s erasure of Nehru from the pantheon of India’s freedom fighters is neither accidental nor an aberration. His marginalisation, even vilification, has been going on ever since Modi become Prime Minister in 2014. Modi saw to it that there was no befitting national commemoration of Nehru’s 125 birth anniversary in 2014-15. Under his leadership, the BJP has been systematically deriding India’s achievements during Nehru’s premiership and has been showing him as guilty for all the problems the country has been facing even now.
Modi’s foot soldiers on social media incessantly spread lies about Nehru; chief among these lies is that he was anti-Hindu. However, anyone who studies his life with respect for the facts of history, and not with reliance on facts manufactured by the BJP’s infamous ‘IT cell’, would realise that Nehru was pro-Hindu without being anti-Muslim.