Thread by @gyansr

Today on Jawahar Lal Nehru's birthday, let us remember some of the things that Nehru did before independence.
👉 Nehru spent a total of 3259 days or close to 9 years in the British jails for the freedom struggle. He was sent to jail on 9 different occasions by the British.
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👉Nehru proposed the bill of complete Independence (Purna Swaraj) in the AICC meeting of December 1927 and got it passed. This was the first time that Congress accepted Purna Swaraj as a policy at the national level. 2/n

👉Nehru along with Subhash Chandra Bose set up The Indian Independence League in 1928 to drum up the support for complete Independence and convince everyone across the political spectrum to work for it. 3/n

👉 On 31st December 1929, Nehru unfurled the flag of Independent India on the banks of the Ravi river in Lahore. On the same day, under his presidentship, Congress decided to observe 26th January 1930 as Independence day. 4/n

👉On 26th January 1930, under the presidentship of Nehru, Congress organized Independence day all over the country. People of the country took a pledge for complete Independence and unfurled the Indian Flag everywhere. Thus Independence movement became a people's movement. 5/n

👉Salt agitation was organized when Nehru was the president of Congress. 6/n

👉Jawahar Lal Nehru was one of the financers of the revolutionary movement in India. There are records of Nehru providing finance to Chandrasekhar Azad and other revolutionaries. 7/n

👉Congress fought the 1936 provincial elections under the presidentship of Nehru and won 707 seats out of 1585 across the country. The next biggest party was Muslim League with a mere 106 seats. Congress formed its govt in all provinces except Punjab and Sindh. 8/n

👉Jawahar Lal Nehru was the second Satyagrahi to be arrested in 1940 for launching the Individual Satyagraha movement. This movement was a precursor to the "Quit India Movement" of 1942. 9/n

👉Nehru became the interim prime minister of the Indian government before Independence in 1946. 10/n