New Delhi: In a rare public address, Congress leader Sonia Gandhi lashed out at the BJP for what she said was an attempt to “vilify” and “denigrate, distort, demean, and defame” the first Prime Minister of India Jawaharlal Nehru.

Speaking at an event to launch the Nehru Centre India at Jawahar Bhawan, Sonia said that while analysis and criticism of Nehru’s contributions were welcome, deliberate mischief with what he wrote and said was unacceptable. ADVERTISEMENT

“Let there be no doubt whatsoever that the project to vilify Nehru is the main objective of the ruling establishment today. Their goal is not just to erase him; it is actually to destroy the social, political, and economic foundations on which our nation has been founded,” the Rajya Sabha MP said without naming anybody, as per a

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