Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) president and Lok Sabha member Okay Sudhakaran Monday mentioned Jawaharlal Nehru was prepared to compromise with even communal fascism as he made Syama Prasad Mookerjee a minister in Impartial India’s first Union cupboard.
Sudhakaran made the controversial remarks at a district Congress committee operate in Kannur on the event of Nehru’s beginning anniversary, days after he had sparked one other row by saying he had ensured safety for Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) shakhas from CPI(M) throughout his days as a Congress pupil chief.
Addressing the get together operate, Sudhakaran mentioned, “Nehru is the image of the best stage of democratic consciousness that made B R Ambedkar the regulation minister. He was magnanimous sufficient to make RSS chief Syama Prasad Mookerjee a minister in his personal cupboard… that large-heartedness to even compromise with communal fascism..”
Mookerjee served because the minister of commerce and business within the Nehru authorities from 1947 to 1950. He later give up the cupboard and based Bharatiya Jana Sangh, which later grew to become Bharatiya Janata Celebration (BJP). He’s extensively reckoned because the BJP’s founder.
“Throughout Nehru’s interval, there was no Opposition in Parliament. The opposition events didn’t have sufficient numbers. However by making A Okay Gopalan (of the Communist Celebration) the Opposition chief, Nehru demonstrated democratic sense. He was of the view that there ought to be somebody to criticise (the federal government),” mentioned Sudhakaran.
The Congress state president’s newest comment got here even because the party-led United Democratic Entrance (UDF) was making an attempt to wriggle out of the embarrassment created by his assertion on RSS shakhas final week. Congress ally Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) took robust exception to Sudhakaran’s assertion on the RSS.