Pandit
Jawahar lal Nehru Vs Narendra Modi
Avdhash
Kaushal
Speaking in Parliament
on 3rdAugust 2017, minister of External
Affairs Sushma Swaraj said that
former Prime Minister JL Nehru earned name but it was for his own self where as
Prime Minister Modi is earning name for the country. This makes us ponder that
Nehru spent 3259 days (almost 10 years) of his life; his youth in British jail
for the country, for the freedom struggle not for his own self. The important point here is that as a young and
well educated lawyer, this was the prime career making time for him, where
given for his background and education, he would have made a big name himself
but he chose to spend those in jail, for the country. Not to
forget that when his beloved wife passed away, he was in prison, in British
captivity. He spent four jail terms in Dehradun jail too, where the jail dairy
describes him as “ Gandum rang, gaal par til, sir se baal nadarad
meaning-Wheatish complexion, mole on his
cheek and no hair on head”
Modi, on the other
hand, has no role in freedom struggle, did not even go to jail for a single day
during the days of freedom struggle. He and his party people have only enjoyed
the fruits of freedom, without any contribution towards achieving it. The true
spirit of Nationalism is not empty chest beating by making tall claims but a
person’s involvement in the development of the nation, its infrastructure and
education.
Nehru was a visionary par excellence; it was
his fore sightedness that India, that had just become free from the shackles of
British dominance,
developed so much, the steel industry, the hydropower plants etc
flourished. Jawaharlal Nehru poured the first bucket of concrete into the
foundations of Bhakra on 18 November 1955 and the dam was completed by the
end of 1963. In October 1963, at the ceremony to mark the dedication of the
Bhakra–Nangal project to the nation, Prime Minister Nehru said, "This
dam has been built with the unrelenting toil of man for the benefit of mankind
and therefore is worthy of worship. May you call it a Temple or a Gurdwara or a
Mosque, it inspires our admiration and reverence, this is the temple of
resurgent India".
As a result of it,
Punjab rose to become the granary of the nation, resulting into rise of status
of living of its people. There were people then, with non scientific bend of
mind who objected and opposed to the dam stating that this will render the
water without life and as a result the water will neither be fit for
consumption nor for irrigation of fields. Nehru firmly put his foot down and
rejected all such statements. Whereas on the other hand, here in Urja
Pradesh-Uttarakhand, the hydropower projects were stalled or closed in
the name of religion by Modi’s party as similar unscientific people rose up in
dissent against the Hydropower projects otherwise by now Uttarakhand would have
been self sufficient in its energy requirement and would have been supplying
surplus energy to the nation.
Our foreign affairs
minister also stated in parliament that so far no other prime minister from
India has ever gone to US and criticized its President for US, only Modi showed
that spirit. It is a well known fact that during Bangladesh war, US sent its 7th
fleet of Navy in favor of Pakistan but Mrs. Indira Gandhi, then PM of India,
showing the steely grit she was known for, asked Field Marshal Manakshaw to
destroy the fleet.
All this comparisons of
Nehru and Modi is nothing but a blatant act of
pleasing the leader and all this is not good signs for a country that claims to be the largest
Democracy in the world. In democracy actions and its reactions should be judged
by the manifestations of the act. There can be no comparison between
chalk and cheese.
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