Didn't speak against anyone's father or grandfather: PM Modi on Nehru reference in Parliament

Prime Minister Narendra Modi said he did not speak against former PM Jawaharlal Nehru in Parliament as anyone's father or grandfather but a former PM.

Replying to the Opposition's criticism of him mentioning former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru's name in Parliament, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said he did not speak against anyone's father or grandfather but a former PM.

"Didn't speak against anyone's father/grandfather...I said what a former PM had said...It's the right of the nation (to know).They say we don't mention Nehru ji. If we do, then too there's difficulty.Don't understand this fear," PM Modi told news agency ANI.

#WATCH | "Didn't speak against anyone's father/grandfather...I said what a former PM had said...It's the right of the nation (to know).They say we don't mention Nehru ji. If we do, then too there's difficulty.Don't understand this fear," PM over speaking on Pt Nehru in Parliament pic.twitter.com/HwkjrhOElh

During the ongoing Budget Session, PM Modi invoked the name of Jawaharlal Nehru multiple times in both Houses of Parliament in his reply to the debate on the Motion of Thanks to the President's address.

Countering the Opposition's questions over the government's economic policies, PM Modi on Monday told Lok Sabha, "Pandit Nehru said from the Red Fort that sometimes war in Korea can impact us and so price of commodities increase in India. The first PM of the country was helpless. Imagine then he was saying that the inflation problem was so serious. How the country's first prime minister threw up his hands in front of the country."