Many people to date believe that India was divided due to political differences. But the fact remains though ignored by so-called 'liberals' that it was Islamist religious fear and the 'secular' character of the Congress party that led to the partition of undivided India into two countries.
The Telangana Congress claimed that the 'backlash' faced by the Centre had forced it to restore the portrait of Jawaharlal Nehru at the Salar Jung Museum.
From declining sending troops in the struggle for Goa to stopping Indian revolutionaries entering the Portuguese ruled state, Nehru had messed up the liberation of Goa on many levels.
Under Congress government, Pande was conferred with a Padma Shri in 2006 and in 2010 she was made the chairperson of Prasar Bharati. She is now associated with Congress mouthpiece National Herald.