Govt bans book that says Nehru-Gandhis family of ‘half-castes’

The Centre has banned a book that says the Nehru-Gandhis are a family of “half-castes” intent on destroying the country.

The Union Home Ministry in March ordered an immediate stop to the publication and sale of Nehru Gandhi Parivar: Secular ya Varnasankar (Nehru-Gandhi Family: Secular or Half-Castes), saying the allegations against the family in the book were malicious and insidious, and unsupported by documented facts.

It said that statements in the book against Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi were defamatory and scandalous, and intended to disrupt communal harmony.

The book, which has chapters on Sonia Gandhi and on the ‘business dealings’ of Rahul Gandhi, is a Hindi translation of a collection of articles in English posted on the Internet. Though the book has been banned, these web posts can still be accessed on the Internet.

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