Congress defends Rahul Gandhi for skipping memorial of PV Narasimha Rao

On Monday (December 26), Congress scion Rahul Gandhi paid floral tributes on the memorials of former Prime Ministers of India, together with that of his father Rajiv Gandhi, grandmother Indira Gandhi and nice grandfather Jawaharlal Nehru.

The Congress chief had additionally visited the memorials of BJP chief Atal Bihari Vajpayee and the Janta Party chief Charan Singh, who turned Prime Ministers outdoors of a non-Congress alliance in Parliament.

Interestingly, Rahul Gandhi didn’t pay tribute to former Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao, though he was a outstanding Congress chief and the architect of the fashionable Indian financial system.

But even after his loss of life, his mortal stays weren’t allowed to maintain in #Congress Office for Lying-in State.

What else could be expexted from a fifth technology dynast.@amitmalviya @JPNadda

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— Natcharaju Venkata Subhash (@nvsubhash4bjp) December 26, 2022

Natcharaju Venkata Subhash, the grandson of PV Narasimha Rao, lambasted Rahul Gandhi for not paying homage to the previous Prime Minister throughout his Telangana leg of ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra.’

This was even if the Congress scion addressed a public assembly close to the statue of Indira Gandhi. In a tweet, Subhash wrote, “Hatred for the #PVNarasimhaRao in the Gandhi Family reflects again. Rahul Gandhi took Darshan of all previous PM’s except P V Narasimha Rao. He gave his blood and sweat to Congress.”

“But even after his death, his mortal remains were not allowed to keep in Congress Office for Lying-in State. What else can be expected from a fifth-generation dynast,” he concluded.

Rahul Gandhi’s actions have been nevertheless defended by Telangana Congress President, Goud, who claimed that the Congress scion was denied permission by the police.

“I was present there, Rahul himself wanted to visit PV Narasimha Rao and due to security reasons, he was unable to go there…Police said not to go as there was a heavy crowd surrounding,” Goud informed ANI.

Indignities meted out to PV Narsimha Rao beneath Congress

It isn’t a hidden indisputable fact that Sonia Gandhi loathed P.V. Narasimha Rao sufficient to not permit his mortal stays to enter the AICC (All India Congress Committee) compound. His physique stayed parked in a carriage outdoors the gate.

PV Narasimha Rao, who Manmohan Singh hails because the “father of economic reforms in India” didn’t even obtain a state funeral. In reality, a frontrunner like Sanjay Gandhi, who presided over horrendous packages comparable to pressured sterilisation throughout the Emergency was honoured with a state funeral and a samadhi in Delhi.

However, PV Narasimha Rao was not thought-about by the Congress management, headed by Sonia Gandhi, of worthy sufficient to deserve a state funeral and a samadhi in Delhi. Sonia Gandhi, it’s believed, was ‘upset‘ about the way the investigation of Rajiv Gandhi’s assassination had proceeded.

Even earlier than his demise, Rao was subjected to humiliation and abasement that didn’t appear correct for a senior AICC member and the previous Prime Minister of India. Rao handed away on twenty third December 2004.

Following his loss of life, Nalapat claimed that regardless of calling a particular Union Cabinet assembly at 3 pm to debate the topic of Rao’s funeral. No preparations have been made at his 9 Motilal Nehru Marg to obtain the physique and place it on a platform.

Neither flowers nor carpets have been laid out by the Congress administration for the mourning crowds to sit down on.

In July 2016, veteran Congress chief Margaret Alva accused Sonia Gandhi of insulting PV Narasimha Rao throughout an interview with Karan Thapar.

Thapar stated, “There is a real sense from your book that Sonia Gandhi got her revenge. You were General Secretary and you saw how Narasimha Rao’s body was treated by Congress and Sonia was then Congress President.”

“The gun carriage bearing Narasimha’s body was not allowed to enter the AICC headquarters. Instead, it was parked on the pavement outside the gates, with chairs for party leaders outside the gate,” he learn out an excerpt from Margaret Alva’s e book titled ‘Courage & Commitment: An Autobiography.’

The Vice-Presidential nominee had clarified, “Whatever the differences, he had been the Prime Minister, Congress President, Chief Minister and party’s General Secretary. He had done a wonderful job, except for the Babri Masjid and the mess up with it.”

“When a man is dead, you don’t treat him that way. And I was hurt. I have always regretted not walking away on that occasion but I did not want to insult his body by walking away,” she knowledgeable.

The veteran Congress politician additionally nodded in affirmation when Karan Thapar identified that Narasimha Rao was not given the honour of a cremation or burial within the National Capital.