Congress leader Jairam Ramesh on Wednesday shed light on Jawaharlal Nehru’s ‘lesser-known’ address in Hindustani on the eve of India’s Independence.In a post on X, the Congress leader said before delivering his celebrated ‘Tryst with Destiny’ speech, Nehru had addressed the Constituent Assembly in Hindustani.

Calling it one of the “greatest Hindustani speeches of the 20th century”, Ramesh said that revisiting the Constituent Assembly debates had brought to light this virtually forgotten detail of about Nehru’s Independence Day address.

“On August 14, 1947, the Constituent Assembly met at 11 pm. After the address of President of the Constituent Assembly, Dr Rajendra Prasad, Nehru actually started his speech in Hindustani and spoke for about six minutes. It is only after this address that

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