Sonia Gandhi alleged that Nehruvian legacy was being “undermined” by those in power who have “contempt” for the country’s first PM for all that he did to build an India which they want to change for the “worse.” Speaking at the relaunch of Dr. Shashi Tharoor’s book ‘Nehru-The invention of India’, Gandhi said Nehru “consolidated democracy and entrenched the basic values of India’s polity -- values to which we are still proud to lay claim.” The core pillars of Nehruvianism are; institution building, strident secularism, socialist economics and a non-aligned foreign policy. Tharoor said, “If today we have a ‘chaiwala’ as PM, it is because Nehruji made it possible to create the institutional structures through which any Indian can aspire to rise to the highest office in the land.”