Congress Parliamentary Party chairperson Sonia Gandhi on Friday said a “project” was afoot to demean India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. Taking a dig at the BJP-led NDA government, she said there was a concerted effort to demolish Nehru’s multifaceted legacy in a “self-serving attempt” to rewrite history.

Gandhi, who was attending the the launch of the Nehru Centre India, said: “While we welcome ongoing analysis of his (former PM Jawaharlal Nehru) contributions, what is not acceptable is the systematic attempt being made to denigrate, distort, demean and defame him.”

She said: “The sole objective of this is not only to diminish him as a personality, his universally recognised role in India’s independence struggle and his early decades as a leader of an independent nation chall

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