Author: Editor, The Nehru Blog

On 3rd August 1959, Y. B. Chavan, the Chief Minister of Bombay, told the Bombay Legislative Assembly that there was a Shri Jawahar Shakti Mandal at  Dabhoda village in Ider Taluka of Sabarkanta District (now in Gujarat). This body of village folks was worshiping Jawaharlal Nehru as the ‘tenth avatar’. This incident was reported by…