Political parties and their leaders questioning the contribution of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India, doesn’t have an iota of knowledge of the struggles that the country went through right after Independence, said Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) working president T. Jagga Reddy.
“Nehru laid the foundation for everything in the country and created a new India that is sending satellites now, starting from a situation where it could not even manufacture a safety pin,” he said criticising the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) at a press conference held in Hyderabad on Monday.
“Wasn’t it Nehru who constructed world’s biggest irrigation projects to IITs that nurtured the world’s top minds and industrialisation that created a new economy? It is mind boggling to see the transformation he oversaw. The country that is now in a position to export food to 200 countries was in a situation where it could not meet its own food demands,” he said.
