Jawaharlal Nehru

"I had requested Sonia Gandhi in September to return the Nehru papers to PMML or allow us access either in digital or physical form," Rizwan Kadri told OpIndia.

It has now surfaced that the private collection of letters, donated by both Indira Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi, was removed from NMML on 5th May 2008.

"And so when the news came that they have been stopped at last in one place and that 400 of them had died, I felt that the balance had been very slightly righted," Nehru had written.

 In a veiled swipe at the country's first prime minister, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru and the Congress, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Thursday said India lost its hold on Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir (PoJK) due to "someone's weakness or mistake".

The Katchatheevu Island, nestled within the confines of the India-Sri Lanka border near Rameswaram, has evolved into a contentious focal point, giving rise to a burgeoning call for its repossession.

Even though everyone has some memory of Operation Blue Star, which was carried out under Indira Gandhi's directives, few people are aware that Jawaharlal Nehru's reign also saw an identical era in Punjabi history

PM Modi quoted a letter by Nehru to show how he was against reservations, but Congress leader Surendra Rajput used edited to video to claim that BJP opposes reservations

Subsequently, Upadhyay tries to justify Nehru’s speech saying that the former prime minister did not essentially call Indians “lazy” and “less intelligent” rather he said that “Indians generally [emphasis added] don’t have the habit of working hard.”

Taking a jibe at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, Bidhuri noted that Rahul Gandhi’s great-grandfather Jawaharlal Nehru curtailed press freedom and jailed anyone who dared to criticise the Nehru government.

Objecting to the change, Congress leaders demanded the restoration of Jawaharlal Nehru’s portrait in its original state. The party leaders issued a warning that if the picture is not restored to its original state, Congress MLAs will personally do it themselves.