New Delhi, Feb. 13 -- Congress General Secretary Jairam Ramesh on Friday described former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru as an "extraordinary institution builder" and shared a 1959 letter in which Nehru apologised to former Supreme Court judge Vivian Bose.

In a post on X, Ramesh said, "Much gets talked about on the relationship between the executive and the judiciary. Here is an extraordinary letter of apology written by the Prime Minister on June 26 1959, to Justice Vivian Bose, who was a former judge at the Supreme Court. What a truly extraordinary institution builder Nehru was!"

The post included an image of the letter dated June 26, 1959, in which Nehru expressed "deep regret" over remarks he had made about Justice Bose during a pr...