Jokerlal's biggest mistake was blundering Tibet. The source of all of India's major rivers thus became compromised, as well as the miltary buffer zone.
Dalai Lama had an interview recently (with Shekhar Gupta) where he stated that Nehru had advised him to go back to Tibet. The Dalai Lama did return and and was duly hunted down by the Chinese, barely escaping across the Himalayas by foot. Dalai Lama also stated that jokerlal had a habit of yelling at him.
Nehru opposed Somanath reconstruction:
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We should see the aforementioned events in Bolivia and Japan in contrast to the way a secular India has handled symbols of Indian spirit. The Indian cabinet presided over by Jawaharlal Nehru decided to rebuild - at Government's cost - the Somnath temple, a symbol of Indian spirit that was repeatedly devastated by religious intolerance. This was something similar to what Evo Morales and Koizumi are doing in the present context. Mahatma Gandhi, however, advised Sardar Patel that the people, not the government, should fund the construction. Hence, a private trust created Kulapati KM Munshi, a minister in Nehru's cabinet, as a trustee who then constructed the temple. <b>Rajendra Prasad, the the President, was invited for the consecration but Nehru objected to the President of 'secular' India attending a temple consecration. </b><b>With Gandhi and Patel gone, this was how the Nehruvian pseudo-secularism began to pervert the national mind. It turned Somnath temple into an objectionable icon.
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Dalai Lama had an interview recently (with Shekhar Gupta) where he stated that Nehru had advised him to go back to Tibet. The Dalai Lama did return and and was duly hunted down by the Chinese, barely escaping across the Himalayas by foot. Dalai Lama also stated that jokerlal had a habit of yelling at him.
Nehru opposed Somanath reconstruction:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->S Gurumurthy, Tuesday, January 31, 2006- Pioneer -
We should see the aforementioned events in Bolivia and Japan in contrast to the way a secular India has handled symbols of Indian spirit. The Indian cabinet presided over by Jawaharlal Nehru decided to rebuild - at Government's cost - the Somnath temple, a symbol of Indian spirit that was repeatedly devastated by religious intolerance. This was something similar to what Evo Morales and Koizumi are doing in the present context. Mahatma Gandhi, however, advised Sardar Patel that the people, not the government, should fund the construction. Hence, a private trust created Kulapati KM Munshi, a minister in Nehru's cabinet, as a trustee who then constructed the temple. <b>Rajendra Prasad, the the President, was invited for the consecration but Nehru objected to the President of 'secular' India attending a temple consecration. </b><b>With Gandhi and Patel gone, this was how the Nehruvian pseudo-secularism began to pervert the national mind. It turned Somnath temple into an objectionable icon.
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