Pranab slams attempts to vilify Nehru on Partition2

Mukherjee said his point was that Nehru's evaluation
would be done by history.

"He has left behind a strong, vibrant, functional
parliamentary democracy and a well laid-out Constitution which
is regarded as the magna carta of the socio-economic
transformation," he said.

The minister said all the effective institutions to
support democracy like an independent election commission,
free media, independent judiciary and all the institutional
arrangements were made by Nehru.

"So he has left a legacy of democracy, liberalism. In
international politics he has given the Non-Alignment
Movement," he said.

Asked why Jinnah was being glorified periodically by
BJP leaders, he said, "I am not going to analyse it but they
should not do it. Every individual is free to express his
opinion even in writing by writings books. But you cannot
denigrate somebody which is not historically correct and
factually acceptable."

To a query whether history was being made to suit
domestic political ends, he said, after all these types of
observations, Advani ultimately had to back out or at least he
left them aside. He did not go further but he had to face
criticism in his party, he said. (More) PTI