Nehru Pandit Motilal

Nehru, Pandit Motilal 
Pandit Motilal Nehru
 Father of Jawaharlal and a great patriot, he began

his career as asuccessful lawyer and joined the Congress Party in 1919. He

started a journal, Independent, to support the cause of Indian Nationalism. He

participated in the Non-Cooperation Movement after giving up his lucrative

practice and membership of the Indian legislative assembly. Along with C R

Das, he formed the Swaraj Party in 1922 to carry out the programme of

disruption of legislative work. He became the president of INC twice (1919

Calcutta Session and 1928 Amritsar Session). He was also the chairman of

the committee which submitted are port, known as the Nehru Report (1928),

on the future constitution of India. He passed away in the course of the Civil

Disobedience Movement in 1931.