The Congress has sacked a writer over its mouthpiece in Mumbai featuring articles that have done the unthinkable - questioned Jawaharlal Nehru, the party's biggest icon, and also made controversial comments on Sonia Gandhi.
An article in the December issue of "Congress Darshan", while describing Sonia Gandhi's life, says that her father was a member of the fascist forces in Italy. The magazine also says Mrs Gandhi became Congress president 62 days after joining the party as a primary member in 1997, and also made a failed attempt to form government.
In another article, there is a detailed critique of Jawaharlal Nehru's policies and the repeated suggestion that the first prime minister should have taken his deputy Sardar Valabhbhai Patel's advice.
"Despite Patel getting the post of deputy prime minister and home minister, the relations between the two leaders remained strained, and both had threatened to resign time and
again," the article says, adding: "If Nehru had embraced Patel's foresight, many problems in international affairs would not have existed."
The article cites a letter that Sardar Patel reportedly wrote in 1950 to caution Jawaharlal Nehru against China's policy towards Tibet, in which he described China as "unfaithful, and a future enemy of India."
Senior party leader Sanjay Nirupam, who is the editor of Congress Darshan, said: "The kind of words that have been used in Congress Darshan are worrying. I take responsibility for this, and the matter shall be investigated thoroughly. We will ensure that this never happens again."
"If any Congress mouthpiece has written something like this, then the All India Congress Committee will look into it," said former union minister Salman Khurshid.
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