He was first Prime Minister...he did not deserve that post, but Gandhi made a unitary decision that Nehru should be it. I consider Nehru's prime ministership to 2 decades in office to be a period of non-progress in India's history. Let's face it, on the domestic front, his policies prohibited rapid industrialization and infrastructure-building that the nation needed and brought in a sick socialism that is now the motto of our dear Left parties, or as Nehru termed it, "Indian growth"...on the international front, he turned India into a pathetic, wimp of a state with absolutely no backbone, spouting "Peace and love and non-alignment" and allowing Pakistan and China to beat India up and throw dust on its face, and then allowing India to become a Soviet puppet.
What sort of legacy is this? Are we supposed to respect the man just because he was PM?
There are only 3 Prime Minister's in India's history who I believe to have left any sort of lasting impression on the nation: 1) Indira 2) Rao 3) Vajpayee
Hopefully after this puppet windbag we currently have in office leaves, I might be able to add someone else to this list.
