Congress leader Sonia Gandhi has accused the current ruling establishment of running what she described as a “project to vilify Jawaharlal Nehru”, alleging an organised effort to undermine the first Prime Minister’s legacy.

Speaking at Jawahar Bhawan during the launch of the Nehru Centre India, Gandhi said Nehru’s contribution to India’s freedom struggle, democratic foundations, and early nation-building was being deliberately distorted.

She claimed there was a “systematic attempt to denigrate, distort, demean, and defame” Nehru, and argued that these efforts aim not only to diminish his personality but also dismantle the social, political, and economic principles on which India was built.

“The objective is not simply to erase Nehru,” she said, “but to destroy the foundations on which o

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