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"In loyalty's absence, betrayal finds its stage": Indians sacrificed their life earnings to Netaji for a dream called freedom, Nehru, however, fancied a different richness: gifting it to Pakistan, Legacy decisions, they call it was one more great betrayal
| Satyaagrah | Jawaharlal Nehru
The treasure, symbolizing India's hope and sacrifice, seemed ensnared in a web of international politics and bureaucracy
"Betrayal is the birthplace of resentment": Diving into murky depths of Nehru & Elwin's policies in Northeast India unveils a legacy of disruption, a region converted, culture exploited & nation betrayed - glaring testament to their ill-conceived actions
| Satyaagrah | Jawaharlal Nehru
Another devastating decision was Nehru's policy of dividing Assam into smaller states based on ethnicity, a move that had negative consequences
"You cannot change what you refuse to confront": Ashutosh Lahiry approached Nehru seeking assistance for the suffering Hindu refugees and to take action to alleviate their plight, but Nehru refused citing his commitment to Gandhian pacifism and secularism
| Satyaagrah | Jawaharlal Nehru
The Nehru-Liaquat Pact faced strong opposition in Calcutta, as it was perceived as a measure that would encourage the migration of Hindus from East Bengal
"It cannot be when the root is neglected that what springs from it will be well ordered": Nehru shouted, 'Total rubbish! We don’t need a defence plan. Our policy is ahimsa. We foresee no military threats. Scrap Army! Police are good enough for security’
| Satyaagrah | Jawaharlal Nehru
The seeds of India's disgraceful debacle in the 1962 India-China War were sown soon after Independence by none other than Nehru himself
"When a mind is stubborn, it has little room for real wisdom and knowledge": India-China war - Mao commented on Nehru’s Forward Policy with one of his epigrams, ‘A person sleeping in a comfortable bed is not easily aroused by someone else’s snoring’
| Satyaagrah | Jawaharlal Nehru
Nehru himself admitted, “We were getting out of touch with reality in the modern world and we were living in an artificial atmosphere of our creation"
"Instead of leader he acted as a politician and made blunders with the theory of probability": Nehru's flawed attitudes towards Communist China and Tibet, the unsettled border in both Aksai Chin & MacMahon line, his 'rigid line' finally led to 1962 war
| Satyaagrah | Jawaharlal Nehru
India avoided raising the border issue with China following Nehru’s decision—even when Panchsheel was signed in 1954,
"It's hard for the same people who put you in the ditch to pull you out of it": Nehru's Panchsheel blunder was born in sin to put the seal of approval upon the destruction of an ancient nation which was associated with India spiritually and culturally
| Satyaagrah | Jawaharlal Nehru
Dr Ambedkar disagreed with the Tibet policy of India and felt that
“there is no room for Panchsheel in politics”.
"The worst decision is indecision": Both, his action and his inaction led to disastrous consequences for India, Nehru’s strategy was India’s & Tibet’s tragedy, during his last days in 1964, he said: “I have been betrayed by a friend. I am sorry for Tibet"
| Satyaagrah | Jawaharlal Nehru
Nehru allowed Tibet, our peaceful neighbor and a buffer between us and China, to be erased as a nation, without even recording a protest in the UN
Nehru lost election and became first Prime Minister of free India: All thanks to miraculous Gandhi
| Satyaagrah | Jawaharlal Nehru
It is sad, unfortunate, and scandalous that the very first election that would decide the leader of free India was manipulated. It wasn’t only the election but the future of India that was rigged
Golden time of Nehru dynasty, when assets of country like Indian Navy were used for Vacation and to 'pay respect' to Edwina Mountbatten's death
| Satyaagrah | Jawaharlal Nehru
The holidaying group included Rajiv Gandhi, Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi, Sonia Gandhi’s mother, her brother and a maternal uncle. Also present were then MP Amitabh Bachchan, his wife Jaya Bachchan and their three children, daughter of Amitabh’s brother Ajitabh, and former minister Arun Singh’s brother Bijendra Singh’s wife and daughter