Political Science · Indian Political Thought
UGC NET 2023 Political Science
Who said that 'National Programme cannot be fixed according to ideology and if people want it, let them elect astrologers to govern the country; and if they believe in astrology out of ignorance, let us combat it'?
AJ.L. Nehru ✓ Correct
BB.R. Ambedkar
CSardar Patel
DK.T. Shah
Correct answer: (A) J.L. Nehru — Jawaharlal Nehru made this statement, expressing his opposition to superstition in governance.
Explanation
★Jawaharlal Nehru made this statement, expressing his opposition to superstition in governance.
★As a rationalist and advocate of scientific temper, he insisted that policy be guided by reason, not belief.
★The remark mocks the idea of running the country by astrology rather than logic and evidence.
★Nehru saw science and technology as central to India's progress, a conviction behind his planning model.
★He held that if people believed in astrology out of ignorance, the duty was to combat that ignorance, not indulge it.
★Ambedkar, Sardar Patel and K.T. Shah were contemporaries in the constitutional and economic debates, but this line is Nehru's.
★His outlook is captured in his famous call to build a 'scientific temper' among citizens.
★Nehru drew the scientific approach from Marxism, constitutionalism from Fabianism and purity of means from Gandhism.
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