The Congress on Friday (November 14) alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is attempting to "deny, denigrate, distort, and demonise" Jawaharlal Nehru’s immense contributions to the making of modern India, and asserted that the legacy of the country’s first prime minister "must and will endure" despite this assault.

Congress pays tribute to Nehru

The Opposition party said that those determined to erase Nehru from the country’s 20th-century history are only revealing their own insecurities and inner complexes.

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The Congress’s criticism of the Modi government came on Nehru’s 136th birth anniversary. Born on this day in 1889 in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, Nehru was one of the central figu

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