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Vajpayee’s Story About A Nehru Portrait
Brut India
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4/18/2025
"In Parliament, I had my fair share of arguments with Nehru ji." This Atal Bihari Vajpayee speech was a throwback to the times when Indian politics was far less acrimonious.
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It is not that Nehru ji was not discriminated against, and discrimination used to arise in debates.
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I once told the Pandit ji that you have a mixed personality, and you have both Churchill and Chamberlain.
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Congress's friends may not believe it, but there used to be a picture of Nehru ji in the South Block.
00:30
I used to see it while coming and going.
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There used to be a knock-joke with Nehru ji in the Sadan.
00:41
I was new, I used to sit in the back.
00:44
Sometimes I had to walk out to speak.
00:49
But slowly, slowly, I made space, I moved forward.
00:55
And when I became a foreign minister, one day I saw a picture of Nehru ji hanging in the alley.
01:02
I said, where did this picture go?
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There was no response.
01:09
That picture was put up again.
01:13
Is there a value for this sentiment?
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Is there a value for this sentiment?
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It is not that Nehru ji was not discriminated against, and discrimination used to arise in debates.
01:32
I said to the priest once that you have a mixed personality and you have Churchill and Chamberlain as well.
01:42
He didn't get angry.
01:45
In the evening we met at a banquet and he said,
01:49
today you have given a very powerful speech.
01:51
And he left with a smile.
01:54
Don't criticize like this nowadays.
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You are inviting enmity.
02:02
People will stop talking.
02:06
Can't we work together as a nation?
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Can't we all face the upcoming crises as a nation?
02:18
One century is coming to an end and the second century is standing at the door.
02:26
If you want to leave us and try something new,
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I have no objection.
02:33
But let us succeed in what we are trying to do.
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This is what I want to request you.
02:40
When our neighbour decided to raise the issue of Kashmir in the meeting of human rights in Geneva,
02:51
the Prime Minister of that time, Narasimha Rao,
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looked at me and said,
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I will go there and represent India.
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The people of our neighbouring country were very surprised.
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The leaders there were also surprised.
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One of the leaders said,
03:18
India's democracy is a strange democracy,
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that a representative leader goes to Geneva to support his government.
03:30
And our representative leader,
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who creates difficulties within the country,
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creates international barriers.
03:45
People said, Narasimha Rao is not a simple man, he is a very clever man.
03:51
Don't think that he is only sending people to show the unity of the country.
03:57
In some places, it may also happen in their minds,
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that if things don't work out in Geneva,
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and a proposal is passed against it,
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then to make up for the mistakes,
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a sacrifice can be made.
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I don't believe this.
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