Narendra Modi dares Congress to choose its president from outside Nehru-Gandhi family 

Narendra Modi.

While reacting to United Progressive Alliance chairperson Sonia Gandhi’s remarks accusing the BJP for undermining the legacy of Jawaharlal Nehru, the Prime Minister Narendra Modi dared her party, Congress, to choose someone from outside the Nehru-Gandhi family as its president for five years to prove that India’s first PM Jawharlal Nehru truly left behind a legacy of democracy.

While addressing a rally in Chhattisgarh’s Ambikapur, on Friday, Modi said, “I want to challenge them … let some good leader of Congress outside the Gandhi family become the party president for only five years, then I will say that Nehruji really created a truly democratic system.”

Earlier on Tuesday, Gandhi, in her address at the launch of the new edition of Congress MP Shashi Tharoor’s 2003 book “Nehru: The Invention of India”, had said: “Nehru’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.”

In the same event, Tharoor, taking an aim at Modi, said if a chaiwallah (tea seller) could become prime minister of India, it was because Nehru created the institutional structures in such a fashion that any Indian can aspire to rise to the highest office in the land.

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