Children’s Day 2024: Today i.e. 14th November is the birthday of India’s first Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. Jawaharlal Nehru was born in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh on 14th November in the year 1889. He achieved many achievements in his life, the biggest achievement of which was becoming the first Prime Minister of independent India.
The birthday of India’s first Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru is also celebrated as Children’s Day all over the world. Today, on the occasion of Children’s Day, we will tell you about the thing which Pandit Nehru kept with himself for 30 years. And at the last moment that thing went with him. Let us know what that thing was.
Nehru used to keep his wife’s ashes at his bedside
Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru was married to Kamala Nehru in the year 1916. Kamala Nehru was a leader of the Indian National Congress and a social worker. But he died at the very young age of just 36 years. In the last months of 1931, Kamala Nehru’s health started deteriorating. He was suffering from TB i.e. Tuberculosis. He was also taken to Europe for treatment. Where during treatment in Switzerland, she left this world on 28th February in the year 1936.
Jawaharlal Nehru was very serious about Kamala Nehru, he was very fond of her and this was the reason why Pandit Nehru brought back his wife’s ashes from Switzerland to India. After this, Pandit Nehru used to keep the ashes of his wife Kamala Nehru with him throughout his life. Be it Anand Bhawan or the house on York Road in Delhi, Kamla Nehru’s ashes were kept at the bedside of Pandit Nehru.
Later the ashes of both were shed together
Jawaharlal Nehru kept his wife’s ashes at his bedside for 30 years. Wherever he went he took them with him. And the death of Pandit Nehru. So along with his ashes, the ashes of his wife were also immersed in the Ganga in Allahabad.
