Who Was "Jawaharlal Nehru " ??

 Jawaharlal Nehru, son of Motilal Nehru, was born in Allahabad on November 14, 1889.

He was sent to England for his studies to keep him away from politics, but his father soon realised that this was quite futile.

The First Prime Minister of free India, Jawaharlal Nehru became the Congress President first in 1929- 30, and then several times later.

Nehru was guided by the spirit of democracy and freedom. He was the world's greatest democrat. He was a dreamer and an idealist. His achievements are innumerable and unmatched. He was one of the greatest captains of the freedom struggle, a man who was next only to Gandhi in his contribution to the shaping of the struggle for which he was in and out of jail. He wrote beautiful letters to his daughter from jail. 

Nehru was India's Prime Minister for seventeen years. It cannot be denied that he laid the foundation of our democracy, our secularism and our policy which is comparable to that of the rest of the world

Nehru was a cultured man, polished and polite He was sincere to his friends, devoted to his wife, affectionate to his daughter and an ideal brother. He loved children very much and he was called "Chacha Nehru" by them. So rightly "Children's Day" is celebrated on his birthday He had a sense of humour that was spontaneous and very original He had a great sense of duty and believed in the dignity of labour.

Pt. Nehru became the General Secretary of the All India Congress Committee in September 1923. He toured Italy, Switzerland, England, Belgium, Germany and Russia in 1926. In Belgium, he attended the Congress of Oppressed Nationalities in Brussels as an official delegate of the Indian National Congress. He also attended the tenth anniversary celebrations of the October Socialist Revolution in Moscow in 1927. Earlier, in 1926, at the Madras Congress, Nehru had been instrumental in committing the Congress to the goal of Independence. While leading a procession against the Simon commission, he was lathi-charged in Lucknow in 1928. On August 29, 1928 he attended the All-Party Congress and was one of the signatories to the Nehru Report on Indian Constitutional Reform, named after his father Shri Motilal Nehru. The same year, he also founded the ‘Independence for India League’, which advocated complete severance of the British connection with India, and became its General Secretary.

In 1929, Pt. Nehru was elected President of the Lahore Session of the Indian National Congress, where complete independence for the country was adopted as the goal. He was imprisoned several times during 1930-35 in connection with the Salt Satyagraha and other movements launched by the Congress. He completed his ‘Autobiography’ in Almora Jail on February 14, 1935. After release, he flew to Switzerland to see his ailing wife and visited London in February-March, 1936. He also visited Spain in July 1938, when the country was in the throws of Civil War. Just before the court-break of the Second World War, he visited China too. 

Jawaharlal Nehru died on May 27, 1964

Shri. Jawaharlal Nehru