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TopicSardar Vallabhbhai Patel

Topic: Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel

Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel charted India course after Independence, says Yogi Adityanath

PTI -
'Patel with his farsightedness brought together many provinces and helped turn it into the biggest democracy of the world,' Uttar Pradesh CM said on his 146th birth anniversary.

‘Democracy being weakened, protecting it real tribute to Sardar Patel’, says Rahul Gandhi

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Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra also paid tribute to Patel on his birth anniversary by remembering his contribution to the cause of farmers.

Indians have shrunk Sardar Patel to just 1947 integration. There was so much more to him

Urvish Kothari -
By 1937 provincial polls, Patel was a major force in Congress. He collected funds, selected candidates, and proved a solid party machine to back Nehru’s appeal.

PM Modi pays tribute to Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel on Rashtriya Ekta Diwas

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PM Modi, whose two-day Gujarat visit started on Friday, reached the Statue of Unity at Kevadiya in Narmada district this morning and offered flowers at the Statue of Unity.

Plague tested Gandhi and Patel leadership style. Just like Covid is testing Modi and Rahul

Urvish Kothari -
Gandhi and Patel were present on the ground during different crises, but leaders today are maintaining a ‘safe distance’ during the Covid-19 pandemic.

When Delhi rioted, Sardar Patel busted fake news and wanted a Hindu newspaper banned

Urvish Kothari -
During the post-Partition communal riots in Delhi, it became Sardar Patel's job to quell rumours and take the Delhi Police to task.

Jaishankar, Ram Guha in Twitter spat over claim that Nehru had excluded Patel from cabinet

Angana Chakrabarti -
Foreign Minister Jaishankar tweeted quoting a biography that Nehru did not want Patel in the Cabinet in 1947 and omitted him from the initial Cabinet list.

Nehru never excluded Patel from cabinet list. Louis Mountbatten and V.P. Menon got it wrong

Srinath Raghavan -
Only after Nehru received Patel’s assent did he send the cabinet member list to Mountbatten on 4 August. Patel not only headed the list, but was to be the deputy PM.

Sardar Patel’s one comment proved all was not well between Nehru and Constitution in 1950

Tripurdaman Singh -
Astute politician that he was, Sardar Patel clearly had insights into Nehru’s thinking, which informed the advice he gave the PM on sticking to the Constitution.

Why Sardar Patel would have opposed NPR, NRC and CAA

Shivam Vij -
Anyone born in India should be considered an Indian citizen. Period.
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