Nehru left Goa to fend for itself to protect his global image: PM Modi

The Prime Minister said that Nehru let Satyagrahis in Goa march to their deaths in 1955

Launching a scathing attack on former prime minister Jawahar Lal Nehru, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said that to maintain his image at the international level, Goa had to remain under imperial rule for years. In his reply to the debate on the motion of thanks to the President's address in Rajya Sabha, the Prime Minister said, "This year is the 60th anniversary of Goa's Liberation. The way Sardar Patel took initiative for Hyderabad and Junagadh, if lessons were taken from it, Goa would not have had to stay in slavery for 15 more years. Goa would have been