Mangalore: Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru died in1964 this day, but he continues to be remembered in Mangalore at Pandeshwar where he has a statue with a pigeon held in hand as a peacemaker. The Corporation Bank garlands him and maintains a small park there.
In DKCC, the Congressmen remember him fondly as India’s and UP’s first Prime Minister. UP later had six more PMs.
On Friday, DKCC paid rich tributes to the builder of India who ruled for 17 unbroken years, when his colleagues fell on way to his right and left as dead. Nehru died of a betrayal by china (and Chou en-lai) in the 1962 war and was paralytic by may 1964.
Local congressmen led by their DK district president, MLA and Forman Minister Bantwal Ramanath Rai, offered flowers to his photograph and remembered him as a great leader for his foreign policy of peace and Pancha Sheel
Rai said Pt. Nehru not only played a stellar role for the freedom of India in his lifetime by going to jail and writing the Indian history for the world to read, but he was responsible for a constitution and a stable government. He believed in miracles of science and technology, even as a disciple of Gandhiji. He chose a secular India where common people lived happily. Rai felt Pt. Nehru was among the greatest figures of 20th century, a builder of plans and agricultural wealth.
Corporator Narendra Kumar, youth congress chief Arun Coelho, T.K. Sudhir, and Mohd. Kunjathbail also spoke on the occasion, paying suitable tributes to the leader of third world or non-aligned Movement (NAM), along with Nasser (Egypt) and Tito (Yugoslavia).
Pt. Nehru, born in Allahabad on 14th Nov, 1889 graduated from Cambridge, secured a tripos in science, and was a barrister-at Low. He was jailed 7 times, before becoming Pm of free India from 1974 to 1964.
He was a great writer, speaker and scholar. He formed the congress party out of a national movement.