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A Tryst with Destiny

Jaipal Singh’s assertion on Nehru’s Objectives Resolution

December 13, 1946

Shri Jaipal Singh, popularly known as Jaipal Singh Munda, was among the honorable members of the Constituent Assembly. He was educated at St. Paul’s School (Ranchi) and St. John’s College (Oxford). He was an ace hockey player who earned India her first-ever Olympic gold medal at Amsterdam Olympics. In 1946, Singh was elected to the…
‘Objectives Resolution’ moved by Jawaharlal Nehru

December 13, 1946

On 13 December 19461. This Constituent Assembly declares its firm and solemn resolve to proclaim India as an Independent Sovereign Republic and to draw up for her future governance a Constitution; 2. WHEREIN the territories that now comprise British India, the territories that now form the Indian States, and such other parts of India as are…
Nehru’s Objective Resolution Speech in Hindustani/Urdu

December 13, 1946
Maulana Azad’s Presidential Address in Ramgarh Congress, 1940

March 19, 1940

Friends, In 1923 you elected me President of this National Assembly. For the second time, after seventeen years, you have once again conferred upon me the same honour. Seventeen years is not a long period in the history of national struggles. But now the pace of events and world change is so rapid that our…
The Progress of Science

March 5, 1938

Nehru’s address to the National Academy of Sciences at their annual meeting held at Allahabad on March 05, 1938. Friends, You are men of learning and many of you have distinguished records in the realm of science. Yet you have honoured me, an outsider, with an inivitation to participate in this annual gathering of yours…
Science and Planning

December 26, 1937

Jawaharlal sent this message on the occasion of the silver jubilee of the Indian Science Congress held at Calcutta on 3-9 January 1938. Most of us unhappily are too much engrossed in the business of politics to pay much attention to the finer and more important aspects of life. That is natural perhaps in a nation…
We Want No Caesars

October 5, 1937

By Chanakya 5 October, 1937 Rashtrapati Jawaharlal ki Jai. The Rashtrapati looked up as he passed swiftly through the waiting crowds, his hands went up and were joined together in salute, and his pale hard face was lit up by a smile. It was a warm personal smile and the people who saw it responded to…
Nehru’s Presidential Address at the Lucknow Congress, 1936

April 12, 1936

Sixteen years ago we took a new and long step converting this Congress from an ineffective body, feebly functioning amongst the upper classes, into a powerful democratic organisation with its roots in the Indian soil and the vast masses who live on it. A handful of our old friends, representing an age and a class…

Jawaharlal will be my successor…

Do not please go away with the idea that there is a rift in the Congress. The working committee has worked like members of a happy family. Somebody suggested that Pandit Jawaharlal and I were estranged. It will require much more than the differences of opinion to estrange us.

We have had differences from the moment we became co-workers, and yet I have said for some years and say now that not Rajaji but Jawaharlal will be my successor.

He says he does not understand my language, and that he speaks a language foreign to me. This may or may not be true. But language is no bar to a union of hearts. And I know this that when I am gone, he will speak my language.

Mahatma Gandhi, AICC Meet, Wardha, 1942