It is not only that Jawaharlal promoted Indira, but also that the precedent was set by Motilal promoting his son Jawaharlal.
The Nehru family was probably cultivated by the British as stooges since Lakshmi Narayan who worked for the Company, and certainly with Gangadhar Nehru.
The Nehru family was probably cultivated by the British as stooges since Lakshmi Narayan who worked for the Company, and certainly with Gangadhar Nehru.
Jawaharlal Nehru was a petty and incompetent leader, who kept hold on power despite disastrous mistakes, only because his two serious challengers - Patel and Bose - were eliminated, the first by Gandhi and the second by we don’t know who.
Now the desperate clinging on to the dynasty, the saccharine platitudes to the clown prince by even accomplished politicians like @ShashiTharoor, is getting too tragic to watch.
It exposes the Congress party as an empty shell, kept together by nothing but the greed for power.
It exposes the Congress party as an empty shell, kept together by nothing but the greed for power.
