Nehru's ideas will never cease to be relevant: Ansari

Vice President Hamid Ansari today said there is no apprehension that ideas of the first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru will cease to be relevant.
"There is no apprehension that ideas of Nehru will cease to be relevant. Yes, life is full of twists and turns and debates are always welcome. But at the end of the debates, Nehru will come out even a greater personality than his iconic figure," Ansari said here today.
The Vice President was speaking after releasing the book "Nehru-Gazing at Tomorrow" penned by veteran Congress leader and former Karnataka Governor H R Bhardwaj.
Ansari said Bharadwaj has in the "very compact but loaded with ideas monograph", reproduced on purpose Nehru's historic 1929 Lahore speech, which "spelt out with remarkable clarity the totality of ideas of how he visualised India to be".

"In 1929, India was not a free country but he had the foresight to look beyond the horizon and spell out what he would like independant India to look like," Ansari said.
Commending Bharadwaj for his book, which has sections on social justice, parliamentary democracy, working of the Indian Constitution as well as science and technology, Ansri said, "Today we hold each one of these ideas close to us because each of them have helped us reach where we are and the direction we should be taking."
Recalling her father-in-law, Uma Shankar Dixit, who was close to both Gandhi and Nehru, Bharadwaj said, "Uma Shankar Diskhit writes about Gandhian socialist. To me a Gandhian socialist is a sandwich between the extreme socialist and extreme leftist.To me to be a secular socialist is Gandhian philosophy.