India is a democracy despite the Nehru family. Starting from Motilal, the family treated the Indian National Congress (and Indian politics) as a family fiefdom.
Motilal wanted the presidentship of Congress to his Princeling Jawaharlal, despite the majority wanting Patel.
Motilal wanted the presidentship of Congress to his Princeling Jawaharlal, despite the majority wanting Patel.
The hold of the Nehru family on Indian politics might be due to the careful cultivation of the family as a political stooge by the British, potentially starting from Lakshmi Narayan Nehru, and definitely with Gangadhar Nehru, who made fortunes settling disputes in British courts.
The contempt that the Nehru family had for political democracy in India is widely known. Not just the princelings in the line of succession, but even their cousins famously threw their weight around. It is noted objectively by foreign visitors.
Indira Gandhi, who had no qualification whatsoever except being the daughter of Jawaharlal, went to the extent of disbanding democracy completely and imposing a dictatorship in India.
Now the Delhi airport is named after her.
This Nehru family is a plague on India.
Now the Delhi airport is named after her.
This Nehru family is a plague on India.
The reason India has been a successful democracy is very simple. It is the oldest democracy in the world. The democratic practices have been noted by the Greeks. Such practices are embedded in all aspects of Indian culture & religion.
Nehru family has zilch to do with democracy.
Nehru family has zilch to do with democracy.
On the day of Jawaharlal Nehru’s birth, which in Orwellian fashion is marked to be celebrated as “children’s day” in India, let us all remember the opportunity cost that India paid over the many decades, for the fault of being a family fiefdom of the Nehrus.
