Pranab Mukherjee wrote that Raja Tribhuvan Bir Bikram Shah had proposed to Nehru that he should merge Nepal into India and it should be made into a province, but the then Prime Minister rejected the proposal.
New Delhi| Former President Pranab Mukherjee has made a shocking claim about former Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. Pranab Mukherjee has claimed that Nehru rejected the proposal to merge Nepal into India. Former President Pranab Mukherjee has claimed in his much talked about autobiography ‘The Presidential Years’ that former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru turned down King Tribhuvan Bir Bikram Shah’s proposal to merge Nepal into India. He also said that if Indira was PM, she wouldn’t have let the opportunity go.
Pranab Mukherjee wrote that Raja Tribhuvan Bir Bikram Shah had proposed to Nehru that he should merge Nepal into India and it should be made into a province, but the then Prime Minister rejected the proposal. Pranab Mukherjee wrote in his last book, PM Modi should listen to the voice of disagreement and speak often in Parliament.
Expressing his views on former Prime Ministers and Presidents of India, he mentioned in the book that every PM has his own style of functioning. Lal Bahadur Shastri held positions that were very different from Nehru’s. He wrote that even if they belong to same party, on issues like foreign policy, security and internal administration, there can be different perceptions among Prime Ministers.
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