Jawaharlal Nehru and Narendra Modi
Supporters of Pandit Jawar Lal Nehru consider him the creator of modern India. Narendra Modi talks about building a new India. But the path of both is different. There is nothing like personal opposition by Modi’s mention of Nehru. The two have passed 12 other Prime Ministers. However, if the first Prime Minister Pandit Nehru is discussed with the face of Narendra Modi, then it is not without reason.
The ideology that Modi Sangh lead is on the opposite side of Nehru’s thinking. The conflict of both ideologies has already been going on before independence. While Prime Minister, Nehru left no stone unturned against the Sangh and his ideology. On the other hand, after independence, the Sangh always rejected the India that Nehru conceived or embodied.
Nehru is not opposed to his thinking
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) got a chance to stay in power at the center for six years under the leadership of Atal Bihari Bajpai before Modi. But his government was resting on the crutches of many parties. On the other hand, even after being initiated in the Sangh, Atal was not free from Nehru’s aura. While there is no such problem with Narendra Modi. They are fully dedicated to the Sangh and its ideology. The strong-developed India that they imagine Nehru’s thinking, they turn to Nehru’s decisions to move forward in that direction.
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They also discuss it with vocal. When they take the name of Nehru, they oppose their thinking, not her. Nehru’s name also comes out of his mouth, because even after Nehru, the country has gone ahead on the same model. If they do not usually mention Indira, Rajiv or other Congress Prime Ministers, then it is because they have been the heirs of the Nehru family or their policies. Through Nehru, his entire legacy comes under Modi’s questions.
NITI Aayog instead of Planning Commission
Nehru’s concept in the development of the country was based on the Soviet Union model. Five -year plans were structured for this. Planning Commission was created. The responsibility of implementation of development-making schemes and policies at the center level was entrusted to the states. The Planning Commission was authorized not only at the policy level but also for allocation of funds. Narendra Modi dissolved the Planning Commission in his very first term and formed the NITI Aayog on 1 January 2015.
NITI Aayog’s role was fixed as a think tank in connection with the plans. No foreign model is copied, but the reality of the country’s ground needs and schemes was included in the priorities of the Commission. A provision of part -time expert members was made to broaden the ideas and suggestions of the Commission. The role of stakeholder states was made effective. The responsibility of financial management was entrusted to the Finance Ministry.
India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru (Image-Wikimedia Commons)
This step of Modi was not because Pandit Nehru formed the Planning Commission. The Sangh’s thinking about the development and its schemes of the country was behind this, in whose opinion the country could not achieve everything on the development front, which he should have got till now.
Kashmir’s special status ended
The Sangh always opposed the partition of the country. For this, the Sangh considered Pandit Nehru especially responsible. He considers the problem of Kashmir to be the gift of Nehru. Since the era of the Jana Sangh, there was opposition to giving special status to Kashmir under Section 370. Shyama Prasad Mukherjee, the founder president of the Jana Sangh, was sacrificed in Kashmir only in protest against ‘Ek Desh- Do Marks- Do Vidhan’. First the Jana Sangh and then the BJP’s agenda included the resolve to eliminate Section 370.
The Narendra Modi government abolished it on 5 August 2019. This was a big and adventure decision of the Modi government. Section 370 should be mentioned and Nehru’s name is not possible, it is hardly possible. Since independence, the question of Kashmir has been the cause of constant struggle between India and Pakistan. It is obvious that why Kashmir became a cancer at the time of every attack or terrorist incident from Pakistan. In this discussion, repeated emergence of Nehru’s name is not without reason.
The edge of the Indus Water Treaty
Even after partition, Nehru’s decisions regarding Pakistan proved to be harmful for the country. The Indus Water Treaty of 1960 is prominent in this. Nehru, showing extreme generosity, had agreed to leave the three of the six of the six biggest rivers of the Indus river system, especially for Pakistan, located at the bottom. In the treaty, arrangements were made to give 80.52 percent water of the Indus system to Pakistan indefinitely. This ignored the interests of Jammu and Kashmir and Punjab to a large extent.
It is considered the most generous water agreement in modern world history. From the first term, the Modi government was watching this. Even after India’s generosity, Pakistan’s attitude remains hostile. On 24 April 2025, the Modi government announced the postponement of the treaty, mentioning the water and blood together. On 22 April 2025 by Pakistani terrorists on 22 April 2025, the Modi government took this tough step immediately after the tragic incident of ruthless killings of 26 innocent tourists.
Not special but everyone’s development
Pakistan is a product of communalism. But even after dividing the country, India could not be free from this problem. The secular India envisaged the secular India amidst large -scale violence after partition, special attention was given to the safety of minorities. This special security developed as a vote bank of secular forces. The Sangh always opposed appeasement in the name of protection. He considered it a threat to the unity-integrity and social harmony of the country.
Narendra Modi has attacked this. In the steps he has taken, such as citizenship law, triple talaq, amendment in the Waqf Act, with the resolve of everyone’s development, they have taken a different streak in the steps he has taken, sometimes indirectly or sometimes indirectly overturned the decisions of the Nehru era. The dispute of Ram temple is centuries old. But after independence, Pandit Nehru was the Prime Minister at the time of disclosure of idols in 1949. Nehru considered it wrong. From the movement of Ram temple to its construction, this role of Nehru continued to target the Sangh Parivar and sometimes Narendra Modi.
Nehru is also different on the question of foreign policy
On the question of foreign policy, Narendra Modi looks different from the path of Nehru. Nehru made non -alignment the basis of India’s foreign policy. But on the occasion of challenges, India’s weak state did not allow it to become credibility in the international world. Kashmir, Tibet are included in their failures. At the time of defeating China at the hands of China, the appeal to the US worsened their situation. There was a big difference in India of 1962 and 2014.
Modi gave him further strength. Without connecting India to a group, he had good but equal relationships from Russia, America to many Muslim countries. Unlike Nehru, Modi gave heights to India’s relations with Israel. On the question of Galwan, the eyes from China were strongly stored and forced it to compromise. In order to compete with the challenges coming from Pakistan, the United Nations race was replaced by Operation Balakot to Operation Sindoor.
They are not ready to bow down in front of America’s tariff. The new India that Modi talks about is this strong India, which does not tease and does not leave the tease. It has to be remembered that Modi has got this strength due to the public support, which has brought him to the Prime Minister’s chair for the third consecutive time. Nehru is a symbol, the opposing ideology from which Modi has reached this point. This fight will continue even further.