MP Congress MLAs stage protest, demand Jawaharlal Nehru's portrait to be put up in assembly

Congress MLAs on Wednesday staged a protest in the Madhya Pradesh assembly building premises and demanded that a portrait of first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru be reinstalled in the House. The MLAs raised the demand following a row over the Madhya Pradesh Assembly's decision to remove the portrait of Nehru and replace it with that of B R Ambedkar, the architect of the Constitution. Legislators of the opposition Congress, while holding the portraits of Nehru, Ambedkar and Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, raised slogans hailing Nehru.