GOOD SHOW BY THE CONGRESS IN 1936-37 PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS In the 1936-37 provincial elections in 11 provinces, the Congress won an absolute majority in 5 (UP, Bihar, Madras, CP (Central Provinces) and Orissa), and emerged as the largest party in 4 (Bombay, Bengal, Assam and NWFP). The Congress ministries were formed...
Much of Nehru’s defective world view has already been covered and illustrated with examples above. We now take up those aspects that have either not been covered, or have been inadequately covered above. NEHRU’S BLINKERED MARXIST–COMMUNIST WORLD VIEW Marxism and socialism were something Nehru was sold out on since the 1920s. (For...
Before the 1936-37 provincial elections, the Congress did not expect to get enough seats to form a government on its own in UP. That was because of the other parties in the fray who had strong backing of landlords and influential sections. So as to be able to form a...
Babudom—the IAS-IPS-IFS-IRS combine, those from the criminal- justice system, and the bureaucracy lower down—is very intimately related to socialism, poor rate of growth, continued poverty, injustice and misery. Nehru did nothing to change the babudom and make it people-oriented, service-oriented and development-oriented—they continued with their feudal class consciousness and arrogant ways,...
Westernised and anglophile Nehru examined and understood the India’s heritage and historical past through the Western glasses, and his writings carried the same bias and misinterpretation. Here is a sample of simplistic, almost juvenile, comment of Nehru in his ‘The Discovery of India’, driven by an arrogant presumptuousness, and a...
Despite popular requests to make sparing the life of Shahid Bhagat Singh and others a condition in the on-going negotiations between Gandhi and the Viceroy Irwin, the Gandhi–Irwin Pact signed on 5 March 1931 remained silent on the matter, and Gandhi and the Congress under Nehru as President did effectively...
Jawaharlal Nehru was given an unfair leg up on Sardar Patel in 1929 by Gandhi, and made President of the Congress, despite the following facts that overwhelmingly made Sardar the deserving candidate. Patel had led the Bardoli Satyagraha of 1928 whose resounding success had made him a national hero and...
He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career. —George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara While Nehru’s academic achievements were rather modest, his knowledge and grasp of issues that mattered were pathetic, as obvious from the net results of his policies—yet,...
