No one from Nehru family has been to college: Subramanian Swamy

KANPUR: Senior BJP member Subramanian Swamy on Saturday launched a scathing attack on the Nehru-Gandhi family by saying that not a single person from it had studied in a college.

“Therefore, JNU should be renamed after Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose. Ambedkar was a learned person and he, rather than Nehru, should be called ‘Pandit’,” Swamy who was speaking to reporters in Kanpur, said.

Earlier, addressing a discussion on the Kashmir issue at the city’s VSSD Degree College, Swamy said that 10 lakh retired Army personnel would be armed and sent to Kashmir to purge the Valley of terrorists. He said Kashmiri Pandits would be resettled in their home state.

“For this, help would be sought from USA and Israel,” he said, adding, “Indian Hindus and Muslims will together resolve the Kashmir issue.” The BJP member said Article 370, which gives special status to J&K, was Jawaharlal Nehru’s gift to the country and Pakistan was ta king advantage of it. “We will scrap it,“ he added, “B R Ambedkar was never in its favour.“ Swamy , who arrived at the college around 11am, was delayed by a crowd of Congress workers who allegedly threw eggs, tomatoes and garbage at his convoy ne ar Narwana Chowk.

Swamy said the Line of Control between India and Pakistan should not be taken into account while fighting terrorists. “Kashmir is an integral part of India and we will not give away even an inch of it to Pakistan.”