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Nehru thought Indians to be lazy: PM Modi jabs Congress in Lok Sabha

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday while attacking Congress, mentioned a speech given by former prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru where he said that Indians are “lazy” and less capable than Americans or Chinese.

Quoting excerpts from Nehru’s speech, Modi said, “Let me read what Prime Minister Nehru had said from the Red Fort. ‘Indians generally do not have the habit of working very hard, we do not work as much as the people of Europe or Japan or China or Russia or America’.”

He also criticised former prime minister Indira Gandhi for not recognising the full capabilities of Indians when she was in power.