New Delhi- The Congress on Friday alleged that Jawaharlal Nehru’s immeasurable contributions to the making of modern India are sought to be “denied, denigrated, distorted, and demonised” by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and asserted that India’s first PM must and will survive this “assault” on his legacy.

The opposition party said those who are hellbent on erasing him from the country’s 20th-century history are only reflecting their own deep insecurities and complexes.

The Congress’ attack on the Modi government came on Nehru’s 136th birth anniversary. Nehru was born on this date in 1889 in Allahabad in Uttar Pradesh. He was one of the leading faces of the country’s freedom struggle. He breathed his last on May 27, 1964.

Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and former party chief Sonia

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