Arun Nehru

Arun Nehru (अरुण नेहरू) is an Indian politician and columnist. In the 1980s he was the chief strategist for his cousin Rajiv Gandhi and a minister in his government, but owing to ideological differences defected with V.P. Singh to float Jan Morcha which was later merged with the Janata Dal. Presently he is politically more close to BJP. He is also a psephologist.

Early life

Main article: Nehru–Gandhi family

In the Nehru family tree, Jawaharlal Nehru’s father, Moti Lal Nehru and Nand lal Nehru were brothers, both sons of Ganga Dhar Nehru. Arun Nehru is the grandson of Nand Lal Nehru’s son, Shyam Lal Nehru, just as much as Rajiv Gandhi was the grandson of Moti Lal Nehru’s son, Jawaharlal Nehru. His grandfather, Shyam Lal Nehru, was a Member of the Constituent Assembly and his grandmother, Uma Nehru, was a Lok Sabha member for three terms from Sitapur. In 1962, after Uma Nehru’s death, Shyamkumari, her daughter, was made a member of the Rajya Sabha.

Nehru moved out of the family home in Allahabad at an early age to go to Scindia school in Gwalior.

Career

Arun Nehru, at the age of 20, he began a successful career in the corporate world, which he gave up at the age of 37 when Mrs Indira Gandhi asked him to join politics.

Nehru was then the President of the Jenson and Nicholson group of companies. He, in fact, was one of the first young corporate wizards to have climbed such heights.

See also

• Political Families of The World