Sonia Gandhi pays tributes to Motilal Nehru, urges people to counter the extremist and deviant forces

The nation on Tuesday remembered freedom fighter and former Congress President Pandit Motilal Nehru on his 150th birth anniversary. Addressing a commemorative function organized at the Vigyan Bhavan in New Delhi, Congress President and UPA Chairperson Mrs. Sonia Gandhi paid rich tributes to the great freedom fighter.

“Motilal Nehru believed that the county was above any community or sect” said Mrs. Gandhi. She also remembered that Motilal Nehru laid the foundation of modern inclusive parliamentary democracy. The Congress President asked the countrymen to counter the extremist and deviant forces that are challenging well laid-out democratic values of equality and social justice.

 “Motilal Nehru was a committed soldier to freedom struggle and was twice president of the Indian National Congress. Sadly, Motilal Nehru did not live to see India achieve independence. But his love for India manifested itself in his ability to shed the trappings of material and professional success; indeed his all way of life and devoted his later years to that goal. Apart from his legislative works he laid great stress on communal harmony and national unity” said the Congress President.

Sonia Gandhi said further “Staunchly secular, he always believed that communal passions are inconsistent with the true spirit of religion or the traditions of our country. History’s his singular contribution that can be laid at his doorstep it is the visions spelt out in what has passed into history as the Nehru Report of 1928 which he authored”.

“Our modern inclusive parliamentary democracy owes much to this seminal document which outlined a system of government in which all could vote and all could be free to practice the faith. It laid the foundation for equal rights of men and women, for fundamental rights for all, for directive principles and the Supreme Court.  All these have been already incorporated into our constitution” added Sonia Gandhi.

Sonia Gandhi recollected that Motilal Nehru never bowed to the sentiments of caste, sect or community which were being propagated by his opponents. “This was unthinkable for him. He firmly believed that country is above any community or sect” she added.  

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