Did you know Nehru was first PM to address US Congress?
June 01, 2016 15:29
On June 8, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address a joint session of the United States Congress.Modi will be the 6th -- and not as commonly believed, the 5th -- Indian prime minister to be accorded this honour.
Thirty-six years before his grandson Rajiv Gandhi spoke to Congress -- a speech that began the process of transformation of India-US relations -- India's first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru addressed the US House of Representatives and the US Senate.Nehru -- inarguably the most brilliant man to occupy the prime minister's office -- delivered an expectedly elegant speech on October 13, 1949 at the Ways and Means Hearing Room, Longworth House, just south of the US Capitol, which was under renovation at the time.
This is what Nehru said. Read
Thirty-six years before his grandson Rajiv Gandhi spoke to Congress -- a speech that began the process of transformation of India-US relations -- India's first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru addressed the US House of Representatives and the US Senate.Nehru -- inarguably the most brilliant man to occupy the prime minister's office -- delivered an expectedly elegant speech on October 13, 1949 at the Ways and Means Hearing Room, Longworth House, just south of the US Capitol, which was under renovation at the time.
This is what Nehru said. Read
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