Speech on Jawaharlal Nehru – 4
"Good Morning Ladies and Gentlemen!
Today, we all are gathered here for the opening ceremony of this orphanage and I as its director want to thank all of you for your huge support in the creation of this institution. We all know that today is children’s day and this is the reason for choosing this day for the opening ceremony because this institution is created for the welfare of many orphans children. Before this event begins, I would like to say a few words for children’s day. We already know the reason for the celebration of children’s day. On the same day on November 14, 1889 Shri Jawaharlal Nehru was born. He was our first prime minister of the independent India.
This day is celebrated as children’s day because of his love for children. He is known by many names like pandit Nehru and chacha Nehru.
He was the son of Motilal Nehru, a prominent lawyer and nationalist statesman and Swaroop Rani. He got graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge and the Inner Temple. When he returned to India, he enrolled at the Allahabad High Court as an advocate.
He grew up in an atmosphere of privilege at wealthy homes including a palatial estate known as the Anand Bhavan. He was a committed nationalist since his teenage years. He became a rising figure in Indian politics during the convulsion of the 1910s. He became the prominent leader of the left-wing factions of the Indian National Congress.
He was a central figure in Indian politics before and after independence. He came out as the chief leader of the Indian independence movement under the support of Mahatma Gandhi and ruled India from its establishment as an independent nation in 1947 until his death. He is known as the architect of the modern Indian nation-state. He introduced adult franchise, imposition of prohibition, nationalization of industries, socialism, and establishment of a secular India. He played an important role in the construction of Indian Constitution and India. As India’s first Prime minister and external affairs minister, he played a major role in shaping modern India’s government and political culture along with an outstanding foreign policy. He got praised for creating a set up providing universal primary education, reaching children in the rural India at an extent level.
Though he was a great politician and a nationalist leader, he was also interested in writing. He wrote a number of books, for instance: The Discovery of India, Glimpses of World History, and his autobiography, Toward Freedom.
Nehru got married to Kamala Kaul in 1916. They had only one daughter named Indira who was born a year later in 1917. He died on May 27, 1964 and on that day our country had lost a great and an honest leader. He dedicated his whole for making India a secular and a modern nation.
On this note I would like to conclude my speech and I hope that this institution will achieve a great success in its future.
Thank you and I wish you all a great day ahead!
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