Jawaharlal Nehru News

(This story originally appeared in on Apr 08, 2024)

‘Kharge exposed Modi-Shah game plan’, Congress hits back at BJP Varnerkar's respect for Prime Minister Modi is to such an extent that he even built a temple dedicated to the PM Modi in his home. He regularly performs prayers in Modi's honour in that temple. Prime Minister Modi has expressed confidence in winning the national election for the third time on the trot.

Amit Shah on Monday recalled the “blunder" committed in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) by former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, while praising PM Narendra Modi for correcting it during his tenure. Amit Shah said Jawaharlal Nehru made an error when he implemented Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir, which was abrogated by PM Modi who also raised an Indian flag in the Union Territory.

PTI has reported. She alleged that four individuals, including two former students, had harassed her sexually on the evening of March 31 on campus. On her complain, an investigation into the incident has been mandated by the university administration.

Katchatheevu Island row, saying the ruling alliance parties of Tamil Nadu have done nothing to safeguard the state’s interests. The Prime Minister’s charge on the opposition escalates the controversy in the run-up to the Lok Sabha Elections 2024. “Rhetoric aside, DMK has done nothing to safeguard Tamil Nadu’s interests.

Katchatheevu island was neither acquired nor ceded and lies on the Sri Lankan side of the India-Sri Lanka International Maritime Boundary Line. The 2015 response by MEA assumes significance considering the ongoing political flash point over RTI reply received by Tamil Nadu BJP chief K Annamalai said that former Prime Minister late Indira Gandhi had ceded the Island to Sri Lanka.

'PM Modi aims to transcend divisive politics of caste, religion': FM Sitharaman PM Modi on Sunday cited a report in Times of India that said, 'RTI reply shows how Indira Gandhi ceded the island to Sri Lanka'. The PM on the X platfrom wrote, "Eye-opening and startling! New facts reveal how Congress callously gave away Katchatheevu". PM Narendra Modi added, "Weakening India’s unity, integrity, and interests has been Congress’ way of working for 75 years and counting".

Tamil Nadu BJP chief K. Annamalai has shed light on India's wavering approach to the Katchatheevu island dispute with Sri Lanka. The decision to cede Katchatheevu has been a source of contention in Tamil Nadu, particularly for fishermen who continue to face arrest by Sri Lankan authorities. As the Lok Sabha elections near, the documents are likely to reignite the debate surrounding the island's ownership and the impact on Indian fishermen. According to a TOI report, the documents show that Sri Lanka is making up for its small size by pursuing the 1.9 square kilometer of territory around 20 km from the Indian beach with tenacity. This is based on claims that New Delhi disputed for decades before finally giving in to. Soon after independence, Ceylon, then known as Sri Lanka, asserted that the Indian Navy, then known as the Royal Indian Navy, could not hold exercises on the island without its consent. The island hosted an exercise by the Ceylon Air Force in October of 1955.

United Left panel on Sunday effected a clean sweep in the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union (JNUSU) election, defeating its nearest rival the RSS-affiliated ABVP. In the polls that happened after a hiatus of four years, Dhananjay from the All India Students' Association (AISA) won the JNUSU president's post by securing 2,598 votes against Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad's (ABVP) Umesh C Ajmeera who secured 1,676 votes. Dhananjay hails from Gaya, Bihar, and is the first Dalit president from the Left after Batti Lal Bairwa in 1996-97.

S Jaishankar on March 20 called former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru's foreign policy stance towards China a "bubble". Speaking at the News18 'Rising Bharat Summit 2024', Jaishankar was critical of early India's foreign policy direction under then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. "This is a bubble we have created.

Election Commission is set to announce dates from the upcoming Lok Sabha elections on Saturday, with a press conference scheduled for 3:30 pm. The poll body is also likely to announce the dates to polls for four state assemblies. This year's Lok Sabha elections could see voting take place over six or seven phases, likely starting in late April, with the results likely to be announced a month later, in May. The polls to elect the 18th Lok Sabha will see nearly 97 crore eligible voters exercise their franchise in over 12 lakh polling stations. April's elections will replace the Lok Sabha, whose term is ending on June 16, while state polls will see voting in Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, Arunachal Pradesh and Sikkim. Terms for Andhra Pradesh and Odisha are ending on June 11 and June 24, while both the Arunachal and Sikkim assemblies will see theirs end on June 2.

Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and other Congress leaders, was in Rajasthan's Dholpur on Sunday, a day before pausing the yatra for the five-day break. “Last year, we took out the Bharat Jodo Yatra to unite the country, and this year, from east to west, this Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra is being taken out to fight against the injustice happening to the people of this country," Rahul, said in his brief address at Dholpur.

Arjun Ram Meghwal slammed the Congress Party after Sam Pitroda quoted the statements made by political activist Sudheendra Kulkarni, that "Nehru contributed more to the Constitution and not Ambedkar" and said that it shows the «mentality of the grand old party of insulting Baba Saheb». Meghwal, while speaking to 'condemned' the statement and asked the Congress to clear its stand on Pitroda. «We condemn this statement by Sam Pitroda and we want to ask Congress whether they stand by the comment of Sam Pitroda… The whole nation knows that Ambedkar played a major role in the making of the Constitution...» Meghwal said. The union minister further alleged the Congress of 'insulting' BR Ambedkar. «I think, this is the mentality of Congress to insult Baba Saheb. I want to take you back in the history.

Ayodhya and the construction of the temple. A pran pratishtha ceremony will be held at the Ram Mandir in Ayodhya on Monday, culminating more than 70 years of struggle between the Hindu and Muslim sides which had started after an incident in 1949 and settled with a Supreme Court verdict in 2019. KK Nayar, an ICS officer from the British times, was the district collector of Faizabad, which included Ayodhya, in 1949, while former principal secretary to the prime minister Nripendra Mishra heads the committee under which the temple is being constructed. When Nayar defied Nehru Kadangalathil Karunakaran Nayar, or KK Nayar, was the district collector of Faizabad when the idols were placed inside the Babri Masjid in 1949. Ayodhya was part of the Faizabad district. Despite then prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru's order to remove the idols from the mosque, Nayar refused to act and this began the litigation by Hindus and Muslims over the Ram Janmabhoomi. The booklet that comes with the invitation card to the Pran Pratishtha ceremony at the Ram Mandir on January 22 includes a profile of Nayar among those who contributed to the Ram Janmabhoomi movement in different ways, as per a TimesNow report. Born at Alleppey in Kerala, Nayar studied at Sanatana Dharma Vidyashala, Alleppey, and went on to study at University College, London, after which he joined the Indian Civil Service.

PM Modi shares Bhajans devoted to Lord Ram 9.20 am: 'Why didn't Nehru then seize opportunity?': Member of Ram Janmbhoomi Teertha Kshetra slams Rahul Gandhi Kameshwar Chaupal, a member of the Shri Ram Janmbhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust, lashed out at Congress for calling the January 22 Ram Temple event a "BJP event," reminding the Congress leader Rahul Gandhi that why the then Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru "did not seize the opportunity" when the Ram Lalla idol surfaced in 1949. Speaking with ANI, he said, "When an opportunity came 75 years ago, why did Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru not take advantage of it when the Ram Lalla idol surfaced in 1949?" "If they had built the Ram Temple, the BJP would not have needed to say anything about it," he added.

Ram bhakts. Mulayam Singh Yadav was in power in UP, and he was determined to uphold his constitutional pledge. At the same time, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) and its parent organization, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), argued that an issue of faith transcended time, the constitution and government policies.

Ayodhya has finally received the honour it deserved and should have been given immediately after independence, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said on Saturday. Speaking at the release of BJP leader Balbir Punj's book «Tryst with Ayodhya», Singh said Ayodhya is for Hindus what Mecca is for Muslims and Jerusalem for Christians. He said some people who used to question the existence of Lord Ram have been marginalised.

Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday hit back at Home Minister Amit Shah for his attack on India's first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru, saying the BJP leader probably does not know history and "keeps rewriting" it. Congress MP Rahul Gandhi said, “Pandit Nehru gave his life for India, he was in jail for years. Amit Shah is unaware of history.

Amit Shah again targetted former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and blamed him for Pakistan's illegal occupation of a portion of Kashmir, known as Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK). Shah was speaking in the Rajya Sabha during a discussion on the Jammu and Kashmir Reservation (Amendment) Bill, 2023 and Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation (Amendment) Bill, 2023. «Jahan tak tang nazariye ka sawaal hai, desh ki ek bhi inch zameen ka sawaal hai, humara nazariya tang rahega, hum dil bada nahi kar sakte. No one has the right to give away a section of our land to show off their big heart,» Shah said.

batch of over 20 petitions filed through senior lawyers including Kapil Sibal, Gopal Subramanium, Rajeev Dhavan, Dushyant Dave, and Gopal Sankaranarayanan submitted that the government misused its brute majority in Parliament to issue executive orders and divide the state of Jammu and Kashmir into the Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh. Earlier in 2020, the petitioners requested the court to transfer the case to a seven-judge Constitution Bench, but the Supreme Court decided against such a move and the five-judge bench kept the matter to itself.

Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation (Amendment) Bill, 2023, that had been moved for approval in the Lok Sabha, pertain to providing rights to those who faced injustice and were insulted and ignored. Amit Shah further said that Jammu and Kashmir had suffered two blunders, owing to first Prime Minister of India Jawaharlal Nehru. “Had Jawaharlal Nehru taken right steps, Pakistan occupied Kashmir would have been part of India now; it was historic blunder," Amit Shah added in Lok Sabha.