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Truth over Fake,
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Equality over Hierarchy,
Democracy over Dictatorship
Nov 15, 2021 • 32 tweets • 12 min read
Yesterday, I received a WhatsApp message that contained a collection of fake statements about Nehru. I responded back to the group with facts. But I want all of us to have the response handy for future reference, so here goes a thread of fake n facts on Nehru. 1/n #NehruFacts
Fake - Only Unelected PM of India.
Fact - Nehru was elected thrice as the PM after 1947. Before 1947, Congress won the provincial elections under his presidentship in 1936. When he became the interim PM, he was the president of Congress that won the 1946 elections.2/n #NehruFacts
Nov 14, 2021 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
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
May 17, 2020 • 11 tweets • 5 min read
After the Jumla of "20 Lakh Crore Package" for COVID, another Jumla doing the rounds is the shifting of the companies from China to India. Suddenly, all the newspapers reported yesterday that a German brand of Shoes has shifted its production from China to India. 1/n
A simple google search shows that literally all the Indian news channels and business papers have a story on that. All the WhatsApp groups are also abuzz with the posts that a German brand is shifting its production from China to India. 2/n
