{"id":22553,"date":"2018-11-15T16:10:22","date_gmt":"2018-11-15T10:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=22553"},"modified":"2019-09-23T18:29:45","modified_gmt":"2019-09-23T12:59:45","slug":"never-ending-propaganda-to-malign-jawaharlal-nehru-an-alt-news-compilation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/never-ending-propaganda-to-malign-jawaharlal-nehru-an-alt-news-compilation\/","title":{"rendered":"Never ending propaganda to malign Jawaharlal Nehru – An Alt News compilation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Few politicians in history have attracted admiration and loathing to the degree that Jawaharlal Nehru has. More than five decades after his death, India’s first Prime Minister remains a supreme political figure and a prime target of disinformation, particularly on social media. While Prime Minister Narendra Modi has publicly expressed<\/a> his view about his party’s respect for Nehru, many of his party’s supporters including some who the PM himself follows, have been at the forefront of spreading misinformation about him. Here is a compilation of instances of misinformation and\/or disinformation regarding Jawaharlal Nehru that Alt News has chronicled.<\/p>\n

1. False claim about Nehru attending RSS shakha meeting<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Had India\u2019s first Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru attended an RSS shakha meeting? Apparently so, if one were to believe the narrative surrounding a photograph which was circulated on social media. A Facebook page\u00a0I Support Doval<\/em><\/a>, posted this photo along with the message,\u00a0\u201cThis photograph was procured with great difficulty. This is Nehru ji standing at an RSS shakha. Now please tell us if Nehru ji was also a saffron terrorist\u201d (translated)<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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That is indeed Pandit Nehru in the picture, but he is NOT attending<\/a> an RSS shakha. This photograph is of the year 1939 and it was clicked in Naini, Uttar Pradesh. Pandit Nehru can be seen wearing a white cap. However, the\u00a0uniform of the RSS\u00a0introduced in 1925 has a black cap and not a white cap.<\/p>\n

2. Affectionate pictures with sister and niece shared with mischievous intent<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Nehru has been sought to be projected as a philanderer. Photographs of him with his sister and niece were shared by BJP IT cell chief Amit Malviya, among others<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The woman<\/a> seen in the first and third picture (Left to Right) is Vijayalakshmi Pandit, the sister of Jawaharlal Nehru. The woman seen in the last picture (bottom right) is Nayantara Sehgal, his niece and the daughter of Vijayalakshmi Pandit.<\/p>\n

3. Fake quote: “I am Hindu by accident of birth”<\/strong><\/h3>\n

A statement which is attributed to India\u2019s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru has circulated online for the past few years. According to this quote, Nehru had said,\u00a0\u201cI am English by education, Muslim by culture and Hindu merely by accident\u201d.\u00a0<\/em>Among those who claimed that Nehru had said this include BJP IT cell head Amit Malviya and national BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra in a recent debate on Republic TV.<\/p>\n