Congress counters Shah's 'vote chori' charge on Nehru; shares 'historical truth'

NEW DELHI: Congress MP Manickam Tagore connected Thursday deed backmost astatine Union location curate Amit Shah’s remark that Jawaharlal Nehru became India’s archetypal premier curate done 'vote-chori.' Tagore listed 5 points to reason that Nehru assumed the station reasonably and legitimately.

"What truly happened successful 1946 — Patel, Nehru & the 'vote chori' myth. Shah claims that successful 1946 “PCCs chose Patel, Nehru got 2 votes, and idiosyncratic stole the election. Here’s the humanities information based connected INC records, letters & historians — not WhatsApp University,” helium posted connected X.

According to the Congress MP, the archetypal ‘fact’ is that successful 1946 the Congress was electing its nationalist president, and whoever was chosen for that relation would automatically caput the interim authorities — a presumption equivalent to that of a premier minister.He added that the 2nd ‘fact’ is that portion Patel received nominations from 12 of the Congress’s 15 provincial committees, Nehru did not person a azygous nomination.The 3rd ‘fact’, arsenic per Tagore, is that nary predetermination was held betwixt the 2 and, therefore, the ‘vote-chori’ assertion is ‘pure fiction.’His 4th ‘fact’ stated that aft the nominations were in, Mahatma Gandhi — who supported Nehru — asked Patel to retreat from the race.

Out of respect for Gandhi, Patel stepped aside, leaving Nehru arsenic the sole remaining candidate.The 5th and last ‘fact’ is that with Patel withdrawing himself, the Congress Working Committee endorsed Nehru arsenic the enactment president, making him the caput of the interim government.“Those shouting ‘vote chori’ are rewriting past for politics. History is clear: it was Gandhi’s intervention, not Nehru’s ‘two votes’, that decided the leadership.

Let facts talk louder than propaganda. India’s state conflict deserves honesty — not manufactured stories,” Tagore said.Amit Shah’s Lok Sabha speechShah’s comments came during his reply to the Lok Sabha statement connected electoral reforms connected Wednesday, wherever helium responded to concerns raised by absorption members, including person of absorption Rahul Gandhi — Nehru’s great-grandson. The location curate cited 3 instances of what helium described arsenic ‘vote theft,’ opening with the 1946 Congress enactment decision.“I privation to archer you astir 3 incidents of ‘vote-chori’,” Shah said. “First, aft independence, erstwhile the country’s premier curate was to beryllium chosen… Sardar Patel received 28 votes, portion Jawaharlal Nehru got lone two. Yet Nehru became the premier minister.”He went connected to mention the lawsuit of erstwhile premier curate Indira Gandhi — Nehru’s girl — who won from Rae Bareli earlier her predetermination was challenged successful the Allahabad precocious tribunal by Raj Narain. “The precocious tribunal ruled that Indira Gandhi’s predetermination had violated the rules and declared it invalid. That excessively was ballot theft. They past brought a measure successful Parliament stating that nary lawsuit could beryllium filed against the premier minister,” Shah stated.He besides referred to a Delhi tribunal lawsuit successful which it was alleged that Congress person Sonia Gandhi — Rahul Gandhi’s parent — had “become a elector earlier becoming an Indian citizen.”