Why was this so? It was natural for him with his grounding in law and constitutionalism to take a lawyer’s and a constitutional view of politics.’ And yet in 19 and for some years afterwards, he was undoubtedly a moderate of Moderates and he was bitter against the Extremists, though I believe he admired Tilak. ‘A man of strong feelings, strong passions, tremendous pride and great strength of will, he was very far from the moderate type.
Jawaharlal Nehru explains in his autobiography why his father, in his initial years, took the side of Moderates: In 1909, he was a member of the UP Council and, later, became the president of the UP Congress and a member of the AICC. In the tug of war between Moderates and Extremists, Motilal Nehru sided with the Moderates. He attended the subsequent sessions but it was only after the partition of Bengal that he commenced active participation in national affairs. He attended, as a delegate, the fourth session of the INC at Allahabad in 1888, a year before Jawaharlal was born.
He followed the profession of his elder brother, Nandlal Nehru and became an extremely successful lawyer. Today, May 6, 2023, is the 162 nd birth anniversary of Pandit Motilal Nehru who was elected twice as the president of the Indian National Congress (INC) – 1919 (Amritsar), 1928 (Kolkata) – during a crucial phase of the independence movement.
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