At least a Vajpayee, if not a Nehru

August 19, 2014 10:44

Jairam Ramesh, former union minister in the UPA government, critiques Narendra Modi's I-Day speech.

The Prime Minister's maiden Independence Day speech from the ramparts of Red Fort has drawn wide encomiums. While invoking our founding fathers, he was decidedly partisan in not mentioning Jawaharlal Nehru, a key architect of the modern Indian nation state with its profound commitment to parliamentary democracy, secularism, science and technology, and economic development. Other than this glaring and undoubtedly deliberate lapse, the speech brought into sharp public focus a couple of social evils that continue to be a scourge on our society.

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