Thread by @SDesh01

We have grown up believing that Children's Day was celebrated in India on 14th November, which is Jawaharlal Nehru's birthday, only after Pandit Nehru passed away. But this is a lie, unfortunately, propagated each year by the mainstream media...
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It is often assumed that Children’s day, which is celebrated on 14th November every year, is a tribute to our first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. The popular narrative is that Children’s Day started being celebrated on his birthday day after Nehru’s death to honour him..

because he loved children ...seriously??🤔😂.. This is ridiculous..What is his contribution especially to children??🤔..In India, much like other countries,Children’s Day was celebrated on Nov.20,that is the Universal Children’s Day as declared by the United Nation

The real story of Children’s Day is far from what most of the media would have people believe.The story dates back to one VM Kulkarni who was a United Nations Social Welfare Fellow who was carrying out a study on the rehabilitation of children who had been victims of crimes in UK

He realised that India has no such mechanism to take of underprivileged children.
He got inspired by the fact that in England, June 19, Queen Elizabeth II’s birthday, is observed as Flag Day to raise money for Save the Child Fund and suggested that Jawaharlal Nehru’s birthday too

be observed as Flag Day to raise money. This report by The Tribune states that his proposal to the UN was accepted, and though Jawaharlal Nehru was ’embarrassed at first’, he accepted it too when his permission was sought.

Children ‘s day was even before Nehru passed away….The celebration of Children’s Day as a means to glorify Pandit Nehru is nothing but a persona created by Nehru courtiers and the Dynasty...
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