Motilal Nehru, The Founder of Nepotism in India: A Thread
Today is the death anniversary of Motilal Nehru, who can be famously and legitimately proclaimed as the flagbearer of nepotism in Indian politics. Not only did he distort the future of nascent India's political story,
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played with the British to harm India's interests but left a legacy of politics which has caused massive damage to India's growth and prosperity.
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This is the story of the rich father of the Blue eyed boy of the Britishers, Motilal Nehru made sure to westernise his ways and live in the prime of his luxuries and enter into the interior circles of the British.
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Motilal was an acclaimed lawyer of the elites who worshipped money more than anything.
"To my mind it is simple enough, I want money. I work for it and I get it. There are many people who want it perhaps more than I do, but they do not work and naturally enough do not get it."/4
"To my mind it is simple enough, I want money. I work for it and I get it. There are many people who want it perhaps more than I do, but they do not work and naturally enough do not get it."/4
(Motilal Nehru wrote this line in a letter to his son Jawaharlal Nehru when he was studying at Harrow College)
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During the fight for independence, Jawaharlal Nehru realized that he wasn't doing anything substantial to earn money. When Moti Lal found out, he told him not to let money keep him from his goal,..
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saying that the son couldn't spend in a year what the father could easily earn in a week.
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"Theirs was the first house in Allahabad to have electricity, piped water and a swimming pool. There were two kitchens and a retinue of servants. The men folk wore western clothes, adopted western table-manners, and enjoyed western luxuries of goods and wines and cigars.
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The children had bicycles and rode horses from their father's stable." (Nehru, Judith M. Brown). In 1904 he imported the city's first car and became its first resident to do so.
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In his career, Moti Lal had represented numerous prominent Zamindars and Taluqdars in pivotal legal matters. The Lakhna Raj case from district Etawah came to him in 1894 and pursued the case for over 30 years until his client ultimately succeeded from the Privy Council,
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where Moti Lal went to conduct the case. Moti Lal was paid a total of Rs 1,52,000 for his work on this case, but that was only in the final phase.
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Sir Grimwood Mears, the then Chief Justice, said of Pt. Moti Lal Nehru that "no man at any Bar in the world could have done that case better than he."
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"The relations between Government House and Anand Bhawan were cordial; dinners and teas were exchanged. Motilala had not turned forty when Sir John Edge, Chief Judge of Allahabad High Court,
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offered to propose his name for the membership of the exclusive European Allahabad Club...." (Motilal Nehru, B.R. Nanda)
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This continuous engagement and cordial relationship with the British eventually resulted in the fielding of his son Jawaharlal Nehru. When JL Nehru was jailed for 2 years in 1923 in Nabha jail he could not bear the jail life.
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Within two weeks he was weakened by the atrocious living conditions. To support his son Motilal Nehru even approached the Viceroy and thus some arrangements were made for Jawahar's bathing, etc.
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βNehru was released from the Nabha jail only after he signed a bond that he would never enter the princely state again!β, accounts prof. Chaman Lal.
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Motilal Nehru facilitated his own and JL Nehru's ascent to the highest levels of the Congress party. Motilal, posed as a moderate leader, sought Mahatma Gandhi's support in 1928 to get Jawaharlal Nehru appointed as the president of the Congress party.
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Motilal Nehru laid the groundwork for ugly cronyism, which paved the way for his relatives to enrich themselves at the expense of the country.
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Congress was established as a safety valve for the Britishers but Motilal Nehru's actions distorted the future of India all thanks to his greed and self-centered attitude, where he forsake India's future.
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