“Mahatma Gandhi had advised that Congress The country will be dissolved after independence. But Nehru did not listen to Gandhiji,” claimed state BJP general secretary and MLC N Ravikumar, adding that it led to partition. “Therefore, his portrait was deliberately taken out of advertising.” Ravikumar accused the Congress of glorifying “anti-Hindu” Tipu Sultan by putting up a poster in Bengaluru’s Hudson Circle last week, which was vandalized.
Even as the controversy escalated, CM Basavaraj Bommai acknowledged Nehru’s contribution to the freedom movement during his Independence Day address. “Innumerable people have sacrificed their lives and sacrificed their lives in the fight for freedom,” he said. “Contribution of great personalities like” Mahatma GandhiSubhas Chandra Bose, Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel, Bhagto Lion, Maulana Abdul Kalam Azadi, Jawahar Lal Nehru And many others are inscribed in history.”
Bommai later pulled up the Congress for creating an “uproar” over an advertisement by the state government. “For 65 years you ran the country in the name of Nehru,” the CM said at Kanteerava Indoor Stadium in Bengaluru. We have not forgotten Nehru or his work. We have great respect for him. Her picture is in the advertisement (as part of the sketch). Bommai also accused the Congress of insulting BR Ambedkar.