Wednesday, February 23, 2011

JAWAHARLAL NEHRU


First Prime Minister of Independent India 
Nehru was born in Allahabad  (UP). His father Motilal Nehru was a famous Lawyer and a great  Patriot. Nehru was educated in England.  As an architect of modern India and a doughty champion of world peace, Jawaharlal  Nehru is immortalized in history. Nehru came to be respected as a world statesman for his policies of peace, secularism and non- interference in any country's internal affairs.
He was elected as the President of Indian National Congress five times and it was under the President ship of Nehru that Congress adopted the famous resolution of Complete independence at its Lahore session in 1929. When the country gained freedom in 1947, Nehru became  its first Prime Minister. Under Nehru India made Technical and Industrial  advances.
Nehru was a man of letters. His most famous books are his 'Autobiography', 'Glimpses of world History' and 'Discovery of India'. Nehru loved Children a great-deal. Every year his birthday is celebrated as 'Children's day'.

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