Congress pays tributes to Nehru on birth anniversary
NEW DELHI: The Congress leaders on Sunday paid rich tributes to the first Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru. Interim President Sonia Gandhi visited the Shanti Van in the morning to pay her tributes.
Former Congress President Rahul Gandhi tweeted, “’What we need is a generation of peace’ - Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. Remembering India’s first Prime Minister who greatly valued truth, unity and peace. “
The Congress said, “On Chacha Nehru’s birth anniversary, we wish for the bright & prosperous future of each & every child in India.our commitment to the nation’s future is unrelenting.”
The Congress leaders paid tribute to its stalwart and from Sunday the party is starting a nationwide agitation against inflation and price rise.”
As per pmindia.gov.in, “Nehru returned to India in 1912 and plunged straight into politics. Even as a student, he had been interested in the struggle of all nations who suffered under foreign domination. He took keen interest in the Sinn Fein Movement in Ireland. In India, he was inevitably drawn into the struggle for Independence.”
“In 1912, he atended the Bankipore Congress as a delegate, and became Secretary of the Home Rule League, Allahabad in 1919. In 1916 he had his first meeting with Mahatma Gandhi and felt immensely inspired by him. He organised the first Kisan March in Pratapgarh District of Utar Pradesh in 1920. He was twice imprisoned in connection with the Non-cooperation Movement of 1920-22.”
“Nehru became the General Secretary of the All India Congress Commitee in September 1923. He toured Italy, Switzerland, England, Belgium, Germany and Russia in 1926.”
“In Belgium, he atended the Congress of Oppressed Nationalities in Brussels as an official delegate of the Indian National Congress. He also atended the tenth anniversary celebrations of the October Socialist Revolution in Moscow in 1927. Earlier, in 1926, at the Madras Congress, Nehru had been instrumental in commiting the Congress to the goal of Independence. While leading a procession against the Simon commission, he was lathi-charged in Lucknow in 1928.”