‘Modi is presiding over the murder of democracy in India,’ says Congress
Mounting a scathing attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who has surpassed Jawaharlal Nehru’s record of being the longest serving elected Prime Minister, the Congress
Mounting a scathing attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who has surpassed Jawaharlal Nehru’s record of being the longest serving elected Prime Minister, the Congress on Wednesday (June 10, 2026) said Mr. Modi had a “Nehru fixation” and accused Mr. Modi of “presiding over the murder of democracy in India”. In a post on social media platform X, Congress general secretary (communication) Jairam Ramesh charged the Modi government of “dubiously inventing a milestone”, referring to the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) celebration of Mr. Modi upon his becoming the longest serving elected Prime Minister. Comparing Nehru’s tenure with that of Mr. Modi, Mr. Ramesh said Nehru had presided over a stellar Cabinet in 1947, which laid the foundation for a modern India.
“The 1947-52 record of achievements of India with Nehru as PM, and in which stalwarts like Sardar Patel, Dr. Ambedkar, Dr. Rajendra Prasad, C. Rajagopalachari, and Maulana Abul Kalam Azad played such a pivotal role, is now sought to be erased by Mr. Modi, who has a pathological fixation on Nehru,” Mr. Ramesh said in his post. “He may have passed a self-proclaimed and dubiously invented milestone today, but he is a millstone around India’s neck, presiding as he is over the Murder of Democracy in India,” the Congress leader added. Listing out the achievements of the first Nehru Cabinet, Mr. Ramesh said 560 princely states were integrated peacefully into the Indian Union, the Constitution of India was debated and adopted, zamindari was abolished, reservations for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes were put in place, multipurpose irrigation-cum-power projects were launched, infrastructure for science and technology capability (including in nuclear energy) was established, and India emerged “as a force in global affairs”.
“Electoral rolls bearing 170 million registered voters were prepared to ensure universal adult franchise and free India’s first General Elections were held between October 1951 and February 1952. The very same establishments of democracy - an independent Election Commission and a sacrosanct voter list - are now threatened,” Mr. Ramesh said. Scientific temper has been erased through the destruction of Indian educational institutions as “exposed by the recent NEET-CBSE scandals”; and reservations for Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, and Other Backward Classes had been weakened through privatisation and other means, he alleged. “And while Nehru won in 1952, 1957, and 1962 with a hugely decisive majority, Mr. Modi did NOT secure even a simple majority by a considerable margin in 2024 and had to hurriedly convene a NDA meeting bypassing the BJP Parliamentary Party to anoint himself as PM.
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