New Delhi: On the occasion of the birth anniversary of Jawaharlal Nehru, the Congress on Monday (November 14, 2022) said it will distribute 600 copies of India's first prime minister's book 'Discovery of India'. Senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh said that copies of the book will be distributed to Rahul Gandhi-led Bharat Jodo Yatra participants in Maharashtra.


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Nehru penned his epic masterpiece when he was put in Ahmednagar Fort jail for participating in the Quit India movement. The book was reportedly written in 1944 and was published two years later.


"Today is 68th day of Bharat Jodo Yatra & also 133rd birth anniversary of Nehru. We are in Hingoli district & coincidentally a fine book on him in Marathi has just come out in addition to one in English & Hindi," Ramesh said in a tweet.


"(Mo) Distorians will continue to distort, defame and denigrate but Nehru continues to inspire & his relevance has only increased after 2014. 600 copies of Nehru's iconic, The Discovery of India, will be distributed to Yatris today. It was brought by a volunteer who drove all the way from Delhi for 23 hours straight at a very short notice," he added.



Earlier in the day, Congress paid rich tributes to Nehru on his birth anniversary, saying 21st century India cannot be imagined without his tremendous contribution. Several party leaders paid glowing tributes on social media to the Congress stalwart.


Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, former party chief Sonia Gandhi and AICC general secretary in-charge organisation K C Venugopal, among others, also offered floral tributes at Nehru's memorial Shanti Van in New Delhi.



Born in 1889 in Allahabad, Nehru remains India's longest-serving prime minister. He was prime minister between August 1947 and May 1964. He passed away on May 27, 1964.


Meanwhile, Rahul Gandhi's Bharat Jodo Yatra entered its 68th day as it resumed from Kalamnuri in Hingoli district of Maharashtra on Monday after a one-day break. It proceeded from Kalamnuri in Hingoli to Washim.



The Bharat Jodo Yatra, which started from Kanyakumari in Tamil Nadu on September 7, has so far covered 28 districts in six states.


The Congress's mass contact initiative will cover a distance of 382 km across five districts of Maharashtra before entering Madhya Pradesh on November 20.


It will pass through 12 states before culminating in Jammu and Kashmir after spanning a distance of 3,570 km over nearly 150 days.