For 12 years now, Narendra Modi and the ruling BJP have run a permanent campaign against India’s first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru. Delhi’s Nehru Memorial Museum and Library has been renamed. A 2021 poster to commemorate ‘Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav’ omitted Nehru from the line-up of independent India’s founders. The party’s IT cell is unleashed on cue every time Nehru’s name comes up. The Modi-led BJP’s fixation on Nehru is so obsessive that ‘Blame It On Nehru’ has become an internet meme.
But instead of always attacking Nehru, Modi should in fact learn from our first and greatest prime minister.
