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Nehru was elected by the Indian National Congress to assume office as independent India's first Prime Minister in 1947, and re-elected when the Congress party won India's first general election in 1951.
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The name Van Mahotsava ( the festival of trees ) originated in July 1947 after a successful tree-planting drive was undertaken in Delhi, in which national leaders like Jawaharlal Nehru, Dr Rajendra Prasad and Abdul Kalam Azad participated.
It has been noted that this was a key part of the process of the reduction of the Indian economy from sophisticated textile production to a mere supplier of raw materials which occurred under colonial rule, a process described by Nehru and more recent scholars as " de-industrialization.
John Kenneth Galbraith, the Canadian-American Harvard University economist, who advised governments of India during the 1950s, an intimate of Nehru who served as the American ambassador from 1961 to 1963, was a particularly harsh critic of Mountbatten in this regard.
Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi ( Indirā Priyadarśinī Gāndhī, née Nehru ; 19 November 1917 – 31 October 1984 ) was an Indian politician who served as the third Prime Minister of India for three consecutive terms ( 1966 – 77 ) and a fourth term ( 1980 – 84 ).
Indira Nehru was born on 19 November 1917 at the Anand Bhavan in the historically important town of Allahabad, in what was then the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh, into the politically influential Nehru family.
During her time in Europe, Nehru was plagued with ill-health and was constantly attended by doctors.
During her stay in the UK, Nehru frequently met her future husband Feroze Gandhi, whom she knew from Allahabad, and who was studying at the London School of Economics.
In 1951, in Taiwan, the Chinese Muslim Kuomintang General Bai Chongxi made a speech broadcast on radio to the entire Muslim world calling for a war against Russia, claiming that the " imperialist ogre " leader Stalin was engineering World War III, and Bai also called upon Muslims to avoid the Indian leader Jawaharlal Nehru, accusing him of being blind to Soviet imperialism.
Jawaharlal Nehru (, 14 November 1889 – 27 May 1964 ), often referred to as Panditji, was an Indian politician and statesman, a leader in the Indian Independence Movement, and the first Prime Minister of independent India.
Nehru was subsequently initiated into the Theosophical Society at age thirteen by family friend Annie Beasant.
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Nehru represented India and was elected to the Executive Council of the League against Imperialism that was born at this meeting.
Once elected, Nehru headed an interim government, which was impaired by outbreaks of communal violence and political disorder, and the opposition of the Muslim League led by Muhammad Ali Jinnah, who were demanding a separate Muslim state of Pakistan.
In 1957, Vajpayee was elected to the Lok Sabha, where his oratorical skills so impressed the then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru that he predicted that Vajpayee would someday become India's Prime Minister.
In 1923, Nehru was elected to the new Central Legislative Assembly of British India in New Delhi and became leader of the Opposition.
When in 1929, Motilal Nehru handed over the Congress presidency to Jawaharlal ( Jawaharlal was elected, with Gandhi's backing ), it greatly pleased Motilal and Nehru family admirers to see the son take over from his father.
In 1951 he was elected to the Lok Sabha from the Mandsaur constituency, joining the cabinet of Jawaharlal Nehru as Law Minister in 1951.
Further Ariyanayagam Chandra Nehru a founder member of the pro-LTTE NorthEast Secretariat on Human Rights ( NESHOR ) and also a former Member of Parliament of Tamil National Alliance elected from Amparai in Eastern Sri Lanka was ambushed and killed on February 7, 2005.
When Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru became president of All India Congress Committee, he was elected its general secretary ; in 1957, he was selected for Lok Sabha.
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Mr. Nehru is subjected to stern lectures on neutralism by our Department of State, and an American President observes sourly that Sweden would be a little less neurotic if it were a little more capitalistic ''.
Nehru advocated Democratic Socialism / Fabian Socialism and a strong public sector as the means by which economic development could be pursued by poorer nations.
" Later when Nehru had began his institutional schooling in 1905 at Harrow, a leading school in England, he was greatly influenced by G. M.
Although the political discourse had been dominated at this time by Gopal Krishna Gokhale, a moderate who said that it was " madness to think of independence ", Nehru had spoken " openly of the politics of non-cooperation, of the need of resigning from honorary positions under the government and of not continuing the futile politics of representation.
In the rift that formed within the Congress following the sudden closure of the non-cooperation movement after the Chauri Chaura incident, Nehru remained loyal to Gandhi and did not join the Swaraj Party formed by his father Motilal Nehru and CR Das.
Nehru was one of the first nationalist leaders to realise the sufferings of the people in the states ruled by Indian Princes.
During the drafting of the Indian constitution, many Indian leaders ( except Nehru ) of that time were in favour of allowing each Princely state or Covenanting State to be independent as a federal state along the lines suggested originally by the Government of India act ( 1935 ).
All these aims formed the core of the " Fundamental Rights and Economic Policy " resolution drafted by Nehru in 1929-31 and were ratified by the All India Congress Committee under Gandhi's leadership.
Nehru was opposed in this by the right-wing Congressmen Sardar Patel, Dr. Rajendra Prasad and Chakravarthi Rajagopalachari.
However, many of the plans framed by Nehru and his colleagues would come undone with the unexpected partition of India in 1947.
Nehru had hoped to elevate Maulana Azad as the pre-eminent leaders of Indian Muslims, but in this, he was undermined by Gandhi, who continued to treat Jinnah as the voice of Indian Muslims.
In March 1940 Jinnah passed what would come to be known as the “ Pakistan Resolution ,” declaring “ Muslims are a nation according to any definition of a nation, and they must have their homelands, their territory and their State .” This state was to be known as Pakistan, meaning “ Land of the Pure .” Nehru angrily declared that “ all the old problems ... pale into insignificance before the latest stand taken by the Muslim League leader in Lahore .” Linlithgow made Nehru an offer on 8 October 1940.
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