#JawaharlalNehru ’s precious legacy is being undermined daily by those who rule us today. They express disdain and contempt for Nehru for all that he did to build the India that they are bent upon changing for the worse.” - Sonia Gandhi

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" #JawaharlalNehru ’s core values of democratic institution building, secularism, socialist economics and foreign policy of non-alignment were being challenged by the ruling party". - Sonia Gandhi

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“Over the years, Congress has defended secularism in the face of violent threats. Today, we must honour #JawaharlalNehru by fighting with determination to safeguard our democracy against those who are undermining it.” - Sonia Gandhi

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"While it was fashionable to decry Nehruvian socialism today, the critics don’t take into account the circumstances of the early years of independence when massive infrastructure needed 2 b built n the private sector lagged the ability to invest on a large scale". - Sonia Gandhi
" #JawaharlalNehru ’s conviction was that India belonged to all its people and that the majority community has a special obligation to protect the rights and promote of well-being of the minorities". - Sonia Gandhi

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“Nehru never believed that India was a country only for Hindu Indians. He never expected the logic that since Pakistan had been created for Indian Muslims, what remained was a state for Hindu Indians. He believed in a country for all in policy n personal practice". - Sonia Gandhi
"At the core of #JawaharlalNehru 's socialism, was the conviction that in a land of extreme poverty and inequality, the objective of government policy must be welfare of the poorest, most deprived and most marginalised of its people". - Sonia Gandhi

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#JawaharlalNehru ’s economics ( as Rajiv Gandhi said three decades ago) over time has developed shortcomings, Gandhi added. Nehru with his open mind would have allowed for it to be updated with the times.” - Sonia Gandhi

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Sonia Gandhi was addressing at the launch of new edition of Congress MP Shashi Tharoor’s 2003 book ‘Nehru: The Invention of India’. A documentary on Nehru was also released on the eve of Nehru’s birth anniversary.

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