What Modi’s Recommended Book JFK’s Forgotten Crisis In Parliament Said About First PM Nehru

During his reply to the vote of thanks to the President’s address, Prime Minister Narendra Modi referred to a book by a former CIA agent to target Congress.  Prime Minister Narendra Modi targeted the first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru on foreign policy.

Prime Minister said “I would like to tell such people that if they are interested in foreign policy and want to understand foreign policy and want to do something in the future, then I would tell such people to definitely read a book. The name of the book is- JFK’s Forgotten Crisis.”

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The Prime Minister said this book also describes the discussions and decisions between India’s first Prime Minister, Pandit Nehru, and the then-US President John F Kennedy. “When the country was facing many challenges, what game was going on in the name of foreign policy is revealed through this book,” Modi said

An excerpt from “JFK’s Forgotten Crisis: Tibet, the CIA, and the Sino-Indian War” says, “According to another account, Nehru was much more interested in Pat Kennedy, JFK’s attractive twenty-seven-year-old sister, than in either Jack or Bobby.”

CIA official Bruce Riedel

Titled, ‘JFK’s Forgotten Crisis: Tibet, the CIA, and the Sino-Indian War,’ the book, with Nehru and JFK on the cover, by former CIA official Bruce Riedel had first shot into the limelight at the time of its release in 2015 for its reference to Nehru. The Congress veteran had sought US assistance and had requested then President Kennedy to provide India jet fighters to stem the Chinese tide of aggression during the 1962 Indo-China war according to the book.