Hyderabad, May 26 -- Venkat Parsa

The Nehruvian Legacy, or the legacy of Free India's First Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, is under concerted assault. Nehru's death anniversary on May 27, can serve as an occasion for a reassessment of his immeasurably immense contribution to the making of Modern India.

It was Congress President Jawaharlal Nehru in 1929, who moved the Poorna Swaraj Resolution and set the goal of nothing short of Complete Independence for India. January 26, 1930, was declared as the Independence Day. However, after Independence, Indian Constitution came into force on January 26, 1950.

Gandhiji handed over charge of managing the Congress to Nehru, himself taking up the wider Village Reconstruction programme. Emer...