Dinesh Kamath's Editorial 'BJP should rectify the mistakes made by Nehru and his dynasty' that was published in Newsband

BJP should rectify the mistakes made by Nehru and his dynasty

On his visit to England, Prime Minister Narendra’s Modi praised India’s first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru. He mentioned how his predecessors, from Nehru to Manmohan Singh, have passed through the doors of England. It is clear that the BJP’s top leaders seek to place themselves in a chronological line, as democratically elected successors to those who ruled India previously. For the BJP, Nehru is also code for the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty. In this context, to put down Nehru is to attack the party’s current political opponents, the Congress led by Sonia Gandhi. The exercise of putting down Nehru, for the BJP, is also a way of absorbing into its iconography certain freedom fighters who, it claims, had been deliberately undermined in a Nehruvian conspiracy.

Rajaji had strongly opposed Nehruvian socialist economic policy and called his government as 'permit- license - quota Raj' and founded Swatantra party that laid emphasis on free enterprise as opposed to statism. For that, Rajaji was ridiculed as an agent of capitalists. If Nehru had an open mind to accommodate Rajaji's views in shaping the economic policies of India, India would have easily embraced globalization and free enterprise long back and today's India would have left China far behind in development parameters. The 'permit - license- quota Raj' did not help India develop despite its potential, but made it a scam ridden economy that led to the downfall of the Congress party.

Nehru sidelined Hindu interests with the sole intention of portraying himself as a secular leader to grab international headlines and Noble Prize. He also is the cause of creation of a culture, where even the unborn offspring of his great grandson Rahul, is the leader of Congress by default. For these two disservices to the nation, it is difficult to raise a toast for him.

But for Bapu, Nehru would not have become PM, but Modi was catapulted by the popular choice of the people. Nehru abandoned the Hindu ethos altogether and tried to propel India with quickfix alien concept of secularism not under practice anywhere constitutionally, retarded prospect of one India. Nehru not only cornered all the 'right' thinking people, even his adversaries and strong contender like Netaji, Shyamaprasad Mukherjee, but he also picked and chose Historians who would write a particular narratives only. No institutions were spared to inherit the glorious past of Vedic culture. A vast section of Hindus were brainwashed by the deadly duo of Nehruvian-communist assault, from which India just could not recover.

Nehru’s panchsheel, Indi-Chini bai bai, non-aligned movement - all fizzled out. His Kashmir policy of self-determination will never let India and Pakistan live in peace. His commanding heights for public enterprises fell like a house of cards. His lack of attention to family planning in spite of being advised by Tata, his linguitistic State creation in spite of advise by Rajaji, his contribution has not stood the test of time. The worst he did was to bring in his daughter, dismissal of elected government in Kerala, his mimicking USSR in economic policies. After 1960 he was a pale shadow but would not let another person take over. More follies of his are 1962 Chinese war defeat, defence of VK Menon etc.  Now BJP got a chance to undo all that Nehru and his dynasty did and thus put the country on the right track.