Modi is a coward who fears Nehruvian ideology: Palakkad DCC president
Palakkad District Congress Committee (DCC) president A. Thankappan described Prime Minister Narendra Modi as a coward who fears Jawaharlal Nehru and Nehruvian ideology.
Mr. Thankappan was speaking after inaugurating a rally and cultural resistance programme organised by the Congress's Samskara Sahiti outside the Head Post Office here on Friday. The programme was held in protest against the Modi government's decision to rename Nehru Yuva Kendra as Mera Yuva Bharat.
The Congress leader criticised the move saying that it was part of the BJP's ongoing effort to erase Nehru's legacy from the country's history. The renaming of the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library in Delhi was part of that move, he said.
Mr. Thankappan said that while the government could remove Nehru's name from official records, it could never erase his legacy from the collective memory of the people where it has become deeply ingrained.
Samskara Sahiti district chairman Boban Mattumantha presided over the function. State working chairman N.V. Pradeep Kumar, State general secretaries Annie Varghese and Pranavam Prasad, State committee members Tinu Thomas and C.K. Haridas, district convener N. Vinesh and district vice-presidents C.N. Sivadas and Kaladharan Uppumpadam spoke.
'The Sahiti will hold cultural resistance programmes in different parts of Palakkad to counter the BJP's attempts to erase Nehru's legacy from history,' said Mr. Mattumantha.
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