On Sardar Patel’s birth anniversary, India’s youngest civil servants will pledge their commitment to constitutional values at the Statue of Unity. He’s the civil services’ patron saint.
On 12 February 1949, Vallabhbhai Patel gave a speech at Chennai's Island Grounds where he spoke about the importance of unity and how the government had been dealing with the RSS movement.
The two brothers developed an understanding: the elder Vithalbhai would devote his time to public service and Vallabhbhai would earn money to support both families.
In contrast to Patel, Nehru, with his Kashmiri heritage, approached the Kashmir issue emotionally. He didn't intend to weaken India, but his myopic approach created lasting trouble.
Patel was critical of the idea of a Hindu Rashtra and summarily dismissed it. He believed that when the country had begun her journey in a fresh direction, everyone should be given a new chance.
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To be truly functional and durable, even eternal, a state doesn’t just need a leader, a party or an ideology. It needs functional and robust institutions.
But now who will save the same aadmi/aurat from the civil services. Not for nothing were the Indian civil services ranked near bottom in a survey carried out in Singapore, a few years ago. Now the only role of the Indian civil services is to preserve their own fiefdom, public be damned and obstruct all progress.
But now who will save the same aadmi/aurat from the civil services. Not for nothing were the Indian civil services ranked near bottom in a survey carried out in Singapore, a few years ago. Now the only role of the Indian civil services is to preserve their own fiefdom, public be damned and obstruct all progress.