President Pranab Mukherjee takes pot shots at the Chaddi Supremo

by Guest Fri Mar 17, 2017 11:15 pm

President Pranab Mukherjee converted his prepared speech into an impromptu one at the India Today Conclave in Mumbai on Friday, but the media group's consulting editor Rajdeep Sardesai read out two operative parts from the prepared address, in which Mr. Mukherjee had quoted Jawaharlal Nehru as saying, “I do not want millions of people saying ‘yes’ to one man; I want a strong opposition.”

Mr. Mukherjee did not expand on that thought, but Mr. Sardesai read out another quote from his speech: “We do not want Caesars,” Mr. Mukherjee had written in his original oration, once again quoting Mr. Nehru.

http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/need-to-guard-against-majoritarianism-pranab/article17523065.ece

by Guest Fri Mar 17, 2017 11:22 pm

Nehru also strongly discouraged all forms of hero worship. He said "India is too large a country with too many legitimate diversities to permit any so-called ‘strong man’ to trample over people and their ideas.” In fact, as early as in November 1937, he had penned an article titled ‘Rashtrapati’ under the pseudonym Chanakya in the `Modern Review’ of Calcutta edited by Ramananda Chattopadhyay. In the article, Nehru accused himself of having all the makings of a dictator and concluded – "We want no Caesars.”

http://www.nationalheraldindia.com/news/2017/03/17/we-want-no-caesars-president-pranab-mukherjee-pays-handsome-tributes-to-india-first-prime-minister-jawaharlal-nehru

President Pranab Mukherjee takes pot shots at the Chaddi Supremo

President Pranab Mukherjee takes pot shots at the Chaddi Supremo

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