Union Minister Manohar Lal Khattar, while addressing an event at Maharshi Dayanand University in Rohtak, Haryana said that Congress stalwart and and first Prime Minister of India Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru was an accidental PM, asserting Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel and Dr BR Ambedkar were deserving candidates for the post.
“I want to say that Pandit JL Nehru became a prime minister by accident. In his place, someone who deserved it (to become India’s first PM) was Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel and Dr BR Ambedkar,” says Union Minister Manohar Lal Khattar ( @mlkhattar ), while addressing a gathering at Maharshi Dayanand University in Rohtak, Haryana.
Hitting back at Khattar, Congress leader Bhupinder Singh Hooda, “He himself became an accidental chief minister and that’s why he is talking like this.”
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Congress demands PM’s apology for allegedly ‘twisting’ facts on Nehru
Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha and Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge, last month, accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of misleading the country by “twisting facts” about Nehru’s letter on the reservation to states and demanded an apology. Kharge countered PM Modi for a speech during which he had claimed there was no elected government between 1947-1952 when the Congress had illegally amended the Constitution.
The Congress president said the first amendment in the Constitution was done to provide reservation to Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribes, fix problems related to education, employment and abolish Zamindari system. He said it was done by the Constituent Assembly members which included Syama Prasad Mookerjee, one of the founders of Jana Sangh. He also said it was wrong to selectively quote Constituent Assembly members and mislead the people.
