Nehru's 97 Major Blunders

by Rajnikant Puranik

(3) Unreasonable-1: Did Gandhi put on record his reasons for overruling the recommendations of the PCCs? No. (4) Unreasonable-2: Did Gandhi put on record why Patel was not suitable as the president, and hence the first PM, and why Nehru was a better choice? No. (5) Unreasonable-3: Was there a proper and threadbare discussion in the CWC on why Patel was not suited for the post, and therefore why the recommendations of the PCCs should be ignored? And, why, instead, Nehru should be chosen? No. (6) Unreasonable-4: If CWC was not convinced of the recommendations of the PCCs, why didn’t it refer the matter back to the PCCs, and ask them to re-submit their recommendations, with detailed reasoning? The decision could have been postponed. (7) Against National Interest-1: How could responsibility of such critical nature be assigned to a person without doubly ensuring that person’s relative suitability through fair and democratic discussions among all CWC members, and, of course, finally through voting. (8) Against National Interest-2: National interests demanded that the choice of person was dictated not by personal biases, and diktats, but by suitability, and mutual consensus, and the reasons should have been put on record. (9) Dictatorial & Undemocratic-1: How could an individual like Gandhi dictate who should or should not be the president, and hence the first PM? And, if that was fine for the Congress, then why the sham of elections, and votes of the PCCs? (10) Dictatorial & Und...