Is Children’s Day being used to preserve the Nehru-Gandhi legacy?
A major fraud is being played on the people of India by the Nehru-Gandhi family, with children being used as pawns. Every year, 14th November, the birthday of Jawaharlal Nehru, former Prime Minister, is being observed as Children’s Day. The Congress government that ruled the country uninterrupted from 1947 to 1977 has been telling the people that Nehru had a special love for children and that the ideal way to perpetuate his memory was to observe his birthday as Children’s Day. On every 14th November, tiny tots dressed as Chacha Nehru are taken around in parades all over the country. Those were the days when nobody bothered to ask questions, especially about the “honourable” deeds of the Nehru-Gandhi clan. It should be remembered that Jawaharlal Nehru was given the Bharat Ratna for the year 1955 even as he remained Prime Minister. Old-timers recall that there were reports that the Bharat Ratna was awarded to Nehru following a phone call from Teen Murti Bhavan, the official residence of the Prime Minister, to Rashtrapati Bhavan. The same story was repeated in 1971 when Indira Gandhi was accorded the Bharat Ratna while she was the Prime Minister.
Interestingly, World Children’s Day is observed on 20th November to commemorate the Declaration of the Rights of the Child by the United Nations General Assembly on 20th November 1959. There is no record of the observation of World Children’s Day on 20th November even once in the last seven decades. But this particular date has a lot of significance, as children gained equal rights in society thanks to the acceptance of their rights by the General Assembly of the UN.
It is interesting to note that the first time Children’s Day was observed was in June 1857 in the US by a priest named Charles Leonard. Every second Sunday of June was observed as Children’s Day. But on 14th December 1954, a special resolution was moved in the UN General Assembly by India and Uruguay, asking the community of nations to observe a Universal Children’s Day as part of the efforts to promote the ideals of the UN Charter and to ensure the welfare of children all over the world. The observation of World Children’s Day on 20th November is in continuation of this move initiated by the then Government of India. But this fact is kept a secret by the Congress leadership and the Nehru-Gandhi clan because they wanted a free endorsement of the Jawaharlal Nehru legacy by the government itself. On 14th November every year, all states in India celebrate Children’s Day under the patronage of the concerned state governments and thereby promote and perpetuate the memory of Nehru, who was the first unelected Prime Minister of independent India.
Except for giving birth to Indira Gandhi, history has not recorded any special affection Nehru had for children. We should ask the government what is the logic behind Nehru’s birthday being observed as Children’s Day. Sports stadiums built in cities like New Delhi, Chennai and Kochi are named Jawaharlal Nehru Stadiums despite the fact that Nehru had no interest in sports and games. There was an all-India football tournament in Kochi which was named after him, though there are no records of the first Prime Minister kicking even a toy ball at least once in his lifetime. Recognition and honours are welcome, but they should be accorded to deserving persons.
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