Jawaharlal Nehru was passed over for the first democratically elected Prime Minister of India as a result of the Indian general election in 195152.
 As Congress president in 1929, Nehru called for complete independence from the British Raj
 Indira was elected as Congress party president in 1959, which aroused criticism for alleged nepotism, although Nehru had actually disapproved of her election, partly because he considered that it smacked of "dynasticism"; he said, indeed it was "wholly undemocratic and an undesirable thing", and refused her a position in his cabinet

