Nehru, Syama Prasad clash led to 1st Amendment Act: Jaitley
Former PM Jawaharlal Nehru's intolerance towards the opinions of Bharatiya Jana Sangh Founder Syama Prasad Mookerjee led to the Constitution (First Amendment) Act, 1951, union minister Arun Jaitley has said. Asserting that Mookerjee and Nehru were ideological opponents, Jaitley said Nehru brought an amendment restricting free speech to stop Mookerjee from propagating his idea of 'Akhanda Bharat'.